Afromodernisms

Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde

264 Seiten, Hardcover

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Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studiesThese 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

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9780748646401
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.02.2013
• Größe: 241 x 159 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Kate Marsh, Fionnghuala Sweeney