Black USA and Spain Shared Memories in the 20th Century

Acknowledgments

African Americans and Spaniards: "Caught in an Inescapable Network of Mutuality" (Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego)

PART I:

ALL THAT JAZZ: TRANSLATION, FASCINATION AND ANXIETY

1. Reading the Harlem Renaissance in Spanish: Translation, African American Culture, and the Spanish Avant-Garde, 1926-1936 (Evelyn Scaramella)

2. Jazz and the 1920s Spanish Flappers: "Las Sinsombrero" (María Rocío Cobo Piñero)

3. Josephine Baker in Spain: The Ambivalent Reception of an African American Female Superstar (Laurence Prescott and Rosalía Cornejo)

PART II:

TRANSNATIONAL READINGS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

4. "Not Valid for Spain:" Pan-Africanism, Sanctuary, and the Spanish Civil War (Karen Martin)

5. Salaria Kea and the Spanish Civil War: Memoirs of A Negro Nurse in Republican Spain (1938) (Carmen Cañete Quesada)

6. From Juan, el Negro to Invisible Heroes: Two Perspectives of African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War (Nicole D. Price)

7. "Negroes Were Not Strange to Spain": Langston Hughes and the Spanish "Context" (Isabel Soto)

PART III:

GAZING AT EACH OTHER IN FRANCO'S SPAIN

8. Black Problems for White Travellers: The Representation of African Americans in Early Francoist New York Travel Narratives (David Miranda-Barreiro)

9. Arriba and the Black Civil Rights Movement: Time to Mend Fences or Time for Revenge? (Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego)

10. Alberto Villamandos: Imagining Soul America from Barcelona: Jordi Longarón and Friday Foster (Alberto Villamandos)

11. In Search of Chester Himes in Spain: Three Women. Three Landscapes (María Frías)

Conclusion: Looking Ahead to the Next Chapters (Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego)

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