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Bricktop's Paris

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean

2015

Overview

2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award 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, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse. 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.

• Publisher: SUNY Press,State University of New York Press
• Subject: 1894-1984 / 20th century / African American Studies / African American Studies : Afro-American Studies / African American women / African American women -- France -- Paris -- Biography / African American women -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century / African Studies / American Studies / American Studies : American Studies / Americans / Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century / Area Studies : French Studies / Biography / Bricktop / Bricktop, 1894-1984 / Cultural Studies : Cultural Studies / European Studies / France / Gender and Sexuality : Women's Studies / General Interest : Fiction / History / HISTORY / Europe / France / HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / History : European History / Intellectual life / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American / Literature : Literature / Montmartre (Paris, France) / Montmartre (Paris, France) -- Biography / Nightclubs / Nightclubs -- France -- History -- 20th century / Paris / Paris (France) / Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century / Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century / Social groups / Social life and customs / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies / Sociology / Women entertainers / Women entertainers -- France -- Paris -- Biography
• ISBN: 9781438455020, 143845502X, 1438455011, 9781438455013