Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the avant-garde

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Sweeney, Fionnghuala (HerausgeberIn), Marsh, Kate 1974- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (vii, 256 pages)
ISBN:9780748646418

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