The modernist avant-garde used manifestos to outline their ideas,
cultural programs and political agendas. Yet the manifesto, as a
document of revolutionary change and a formative genre of
modernism, has heretofore received little critical attention. This
2007 study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping
the modernist movement by investigating twentieth-century
manifestos from Europe and the Black Atlantic. Manifestos by
writers from the imperial metropolis and the colonial 'periphery'
drew very different emphases in their recasting of histories and
experiences of modernity. Laura Winkiel examines archival materials
as well as canonical texts to analyse how Sylvia Pankhurst,
Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Wyndham Lewis, Nancy Cunard, C. L. R.
James, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Aime Cesaire and
others presented their modernist projects. This focus on manifestos
in their geographical and historical context allows for a revision
of modernism that emphasizes its cross-cultural aspects.
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