Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-348) and index.
Contents
The New Orleans connection -- Early visitors : preachers and abolitionists -- After emancipation : the "talented tenth" in Paris -- W.E.B. Du Bois and World War I -- Langston Hughes and Alain Locke : jazz in Montmartre and African art -- Countee Cullen : "the greatest francophile" -- Claude McKay and the two faces of France -- Jessie Fauset and Gwendolyn Bennett -- And others too -- From the new Negro to Negritude : encounters in the Latin Quarter -- "Making it" in postwar France -- Richard Wright : an intellectual in exile -- James Baldwin in Paris : love and self-discovery -- Chester Himes's ambivalent triumph -- William Gardner Smith : an eternal foreigner -- Literary coming of age in Paris -- A new mood : Black power in Paris -- Visitors all, or nearly -- William Melvin Kelley and Melvin Dixon : change of territory -- Ted Joans : "the surrealist Griot" -- James Emanuel : a poet in exile.
