The Transatlantic Culture Trade

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desrine Bogle
Keyword(s):  
Transatlantic Culture

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Hannah Durkin
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
White Men ◽  
Women Dancers ◽  
Young Black Women ◽  
The Right ◽  
Transatlantic Culture ◽  
Josephine Baker ◽  
Textual Records

This book explores Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham’s contributions to the page and screen to shed new light on their intellectual interventions as Black women artists in midcentury transatlantic culture. Cinematic and literary spaces were for Baker and Dunham sites of mediation and marginalization in which they frequently shared authorship with white men. Yet they are also rare visual and textual records of Black women dancers’ midcentury artistry and authorship. On the page, they voiced the challenges of navigating interwar global spaces as young Black women, and their narratives shed vital light on the origins and purpose of their art. On the screen, they claimed the right to stardom while at the same time retaining some artistic autonomy and even shaping their films’ aesthetics.

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