An edition of Bricktop's Paris
(2015)
Bricktop's Paris
African American women in Paris between the two World Wars
by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
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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. 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.
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
State University of New York Press,
SUNY Press
Language
English
Pages
377
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Subjects
Social life and customs, Intellectual life, Nightclubs, Americans, Women entertainers, African American women, Biography, History, African american women, Entertainers, Paris (france), biography, Clubs, Paris (france), intellectual life, Paris (france), social life and customs, Americans, francePeople
Bricktop (1894-1984)Places
Paris, Paris (France), Montmartre (Paris, France), FranceTimes
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Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars
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Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars
2015, State University of New York Press
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Bricktop's Paris: African American women in Paris between the two World Wars
2015, State University of New York Press, SUNY Press
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Book Details
Table of Contents
The other Americans, 1919-1939
Les Dames, grand and small, of Montmartre : the Paris of Bricktop
The Gotham-Montparnasse exchange
Women of the Petit Boulevard : the artist's haven
Black Paris : cultural politics and prose
"Homeward tug at a poet's heart" : the return
Appendix. "Negro Dance," opus 25, no. 1 / Nora Douglas Holt
Gained in translation? / Alice Randall
History's marginalia, autofictional mysteries, and a fondness for matters French / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
The autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker regrets / Ada "Bricktop" Smith and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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