Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.
2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award
During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love. These women were participants in the life of the American expatriate colony, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse. Bricktop’s Paris introduces the reader to twenty-five of these women and the city they encountered. Following this nonfiction account, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting provides a fictionalized autobiography of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith, which brings the players from the world of nonfiction into a Paris whose elegance masks a thriving underworld.
Tabela de Conteúdo
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
The Women
Map of Bricktop’s Paris
Map Key
Book I. Bricktop ’ s Paris
Introduction: The Other Americans, 1919–1939
1. Les Dames, Grand and Small, of Montmartre: The Paris of Bricktop
2. The Gotham-Montparnasse Exchange
3. Women of the Petit Boulevard: The Artist’s Haven
4. Black Paris: Cultural Politics and Prose
5. Epilogue: ‘Homeward Tug at a Poet’s Heart’: The Return
Appendix: ‘Negro Dance, ‘ Opus 25, No. 1, Nora Douglas Holt
Book II. The Autobiography of Ada ‘ Bricktop ‘ Smith or Miss Baker Regrets
Foreword: Gained in Translation?
Alice Randall
Preface: History’s Marginalia, Autofictional Mysteries, and a Fondness of Matters French
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
The Autobiography of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets
Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Glossary (Book II)
Notes to Book I
List of Archives and Libraries
Selected Bibliography
Index to Book I
Sobre o autor
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of French and African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the coeditor of Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness and the translator of a collection of Paulette Nardal’s essays, Beyond Negritude: Essays from Woman in the City, also published by SUNY Press.
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