ID: 8981  -  Renata Morresi  -  Macerata
Type: Text		   Contents Negro anthology
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Title: Contents [Negro: an Anthology]Subtitle:
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Date: Issuedin/on: 1934
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Relation: IsPartOfQualifier: Negro: an anthology, Wishart & co.; London, 1934.
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Description: Two important articles are not listed in the contents: Negress in the Brothel by René Crevel, cut out by censorship but printed by Cunard at the Utopia Press and secretly added to the volume as pages I, II and III in the Europe Section; and the article The Fastest Human of the Twentieth Century, four pages numbered 342-a, 342-b, 342-c, 342-d, written after Jesse Owens's victory at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and added only to the number of copies of the anthology still available to Cunard at that time. (Renata Morresi, University of Macerata)
Subjects: Places
Subjects: Places
Subjects: Places
Subjects: Places
Subjects: Identity
Subjects: Arti/Facts
Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism
Subjects: Wo/Men
Subjects: Race/Ethnicity		Keywords: Africa
Keywords: America
Keywords: Caribbean
Keywords: Europe
Keywords: diaspora
Keywords: anthology
Keywords: black*
Keywords: Cunard, Nancy
Keywords: identity		Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Africa)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, America)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Caribbean)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Europe)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, diaspora)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Arti/Facts, anthology)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, black*)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Cunard, Nancy)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Race/Ethnicity, identity)
Comment: 1936 was the year of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and of the Spanish civil war. Cunard was war correpondent and violently denounced Mussolini's imperialism in Africa and Franco for, among other things, forcing North Africans to enrol in his army against the Republicans. It is emblematic that of the frightful circumstances of history in that year Cunard picked up Jesse Owens's victory in Germany as the event worth to be included at any cost in the Negro anthology. In my opinion Cunard's gesture is evidence of her sophisticated apprehension of the notion of cultural identity, placing the Negro anthology as one of the first pioneering experiments in the field of cultural studies. (Renata Morresi, University of Macerata)