Afromodernisms - Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde (Hardcover, New)

This title makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. This study stretches and challenges 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. It sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism. It includes specially commissioned contribution from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Demetrius Eudell on 'What to the Negro is Modernism?' It identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris, Haiti. It addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	February 2013
Editors:	Fionnghuala Sweeney • Kate Marsh
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7486-4640-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
LSN:	0-7486-4640-X
Barcode:	9780748646401

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