Description
Persuasively argues for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies
These 9 new chapters stretch 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 early twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term 'Afromodernisms' and the first study to address together the fields of modernism and the black Atlantic.
Key Features:
Sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism
Opening essay from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Bill Lawson
Identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris and the Caribbean
Addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship
Author: Fionnghuala Sweeney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/06/2013
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780748646401
ISBN10: 074864640X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | General
- Art | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | General
About the Author
Fionnghuala Sweeney is Lecturer at the University College Dublin Kate Marsh is Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool Kate Marsh is Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool