Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde

ISBN-13: 9780748646401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.

Fionnghuala Sweeney;Kate Marsh

Opis

Makes 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.