Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde
Fionnghuala Sweeney, Kate MarshMakes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studies
These 10 new chapters stretch and challenge current canonical configurations of modernism in two key ways: by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as key actors and core presences in the development of a modernist avant-garde; and by interrogating 'blackness' as an aesthetic and political category at critical moments during the twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term 'Afromodernisms' and the first study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic.
Key Features
- Sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism
- Specially commissioned contribution from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Demetrius Eudell on 'What to the Negro is Modernism?'
- Identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris, Haiti
- Addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship
年:
2013
出版社:
Edinburgh University Press
语言:
english
页:
264
ISBN 10:
0748646418
ISBN 13:
9780748646418
文件:
PDF, 2.50 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013