After Modernism: Women, Gender, Race

ISBN-13: 9781032443393 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 252 str.

Goulimari, Pelagia

Opis

In “after modernism” the meanings of “after” include periodisation, homage and critique. This book attends to neglected genealogies and intertexts—“high” and “low”—yet offering unacknowledged ontological, epistemological, conceptual and figurative resources. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction—After Modernism: Women, Gender, Race  2. The Afters and Now of Modernism: Connecting Leanne Howe’s Native Tribalography and the Decolonizing Arts of Britain’s Kabe Wilson and the Marshall Islands’ Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner  3. Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War  4. A Grammar of Modern Silence: Race, Gender, and Visible Invisibility in Iola Leroy and Contending Forces  5. Indigenismo and the Limits of Cultural Appropriation: Frida Kahlo and Marina Núñez del Prado  6. Gender and Race in the Modernist Middlebrow: Louise Faure-Favier’s Blanche et Noir  7. Restaging Respectability: The Subversive Performances of Josephine Baker and Nora Holt in Jazz-Age Paris  8. Fashioning Modernism: Rose Piper’s Painting and Fabric Design  9. The “White Darkness”: Considering Modernist Investments in the “Primitive” through Maya Deren’s Work in Haiti (1947–53)  10. Shredding, Burning, Tunnelling: Modernity, Mrs. Dalloway, Sula and My Grandparents circa 1922  11. Doublings and Dissociation in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird  12. Dream*Hoping into Futures: Black Women in the Harlem Renaissance and Afrofuturism  13. The Black Woman’s Mask: Fanon, Capécia, Condé  14. “In the Centre of Our Circle”: Gender, Selfhood and Non-Linear Time in Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda  15. “Screaming in Delight”: Qiu Miaojin’s Queer Modernist Births in and for Taiwan

O autorze

Pelagia Goulimari is Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the M.St. in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and “Intersectional Humanities” at the University of Oxford, UK. Her books include Postmodernism: What Moment?; Toni Morrison; Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism; Women Writing Across Cultures; Love and Vulnerability; and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. She is the editor of Angelaki.