20th century literature
Atlantic literature
Black studies
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Literary Studies
modernism
Product details
- ISBN 9780748646401
- Weight: 553g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Key Features:
Sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism
Opening essay from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Bill Lawson
Identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris and the Caribbean
Addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship
Fionnghuala Sweeney is a Lecturer in the School of English, Drama & Film at University College Dublin. She is the author of Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World (University of Liverpool Press, 2007) and co-editor, with D Dolowitz and S Buckler, of Researching Online (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Kate Marsh is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815 (Pickering & Chatto, 2009) and Fictions of 1947: Representations of Indian Decolonization, 1919-1962 (Peter Lang, 2007); and the co-editor, with N Frith, of France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Loss and la fracture coloniale (Lanham, 2010).
