American Cocktail (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Utgivningsdatum
2014-02-24
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Medarbetare
Williams, Patricia J.
Dimensioner
215 x 147 x 29 mm
Vikt
499 g
ISBN
9780674073050

American Cocktail

A "Colored Girl" in the World

av Anita Reynolds, George Hutchinson
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-02-24
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This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Of racially mixed heritage, Anita Reynolds was proudly African American but often passed for Indian, Mexican, or Creole. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, but above all free-spirited provocateur, she was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an "American cocktail." One of the first black stars of the silent era, she appeared in Hollywood movies with Rudolph Valentino, attended Charlie Chaplin's anarchist meetings, and studied dance with Ruth St. Denis. She moved to New York in the 1920s and made a splash with both Harlem Renaissance elites and Greenwich Village bohemians. An émigré in Paris, she fell in with the Left Bank avant-garde, befriending Antonin Artaud, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso. Next, she took up residence as a journalist in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and witnessed firsthand the growing menace of fascism. In 1940, as the Nazi panzers closed in on Paris, Reynolds spent the final days before the French capitulation as a Red Cross nurse, afterward making a mad dash for Lisbon to escape on the last ship departing Europe. In prose that perfectly captures the globetrotting nonchalance of its author, American Cocktail presents a stimulating, unforgettable self-portrait of a truly extraordinary woman.
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Anita Reynolds was an actress, dancer, model, and psychologist. Howard Miller is Professor of Education at Mercy College School of Education. George Hutchinson is Professor of English and Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture at Cornell University. Patricia J. Williams is James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

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