| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Afromodernisms : Black modernist practice in contemporary context / Fionnghuala Sweeney -- Black modernism and the making of the twentieth century : Paris, 1919 / Tyler Stovall -- Futurist responses to African American culture / Przemyslaw Strożek -- Creating homoutopia : Féral Benga's body in the in the matrix of modernism / James Smalls -- Modernism, anthropology, Africanism and the self : Herston and Herskovits on/in Haiti / Claudine Raynaud -- Asymmetrical possessions : Zora Neale Hurston and the gendered fictions of Black modernity / Samantha Pinto -- "Forget Paris?" : transnationalism in the spiritual works of Karl Parboosingh / Claudia Hucke -- "Death to any one that puts his foot in No Man('s) Land" : "afromodernist" reimagining and aesthetic experimentation in Horace Pippin's World War I manuscripts and paintings / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Making the word flesh : three at the threshold of tomorrow / Barbara Lewis -- "Thinking in hieroglyphics" : representations of Egypt in the New Negro Renaissance / Rachel Forebrother -- Afterword: Stormy weather and Afromodernism / Bill E. Lawson |
| Summary |
Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studies These 10 new chapters stretch and challenge 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. Key Features. Sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism Specially commissioned contribution from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Demetrius Eudell on 'What to the Negro is Modernism?' Identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris, Haiti Addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Modernism (Art) -- African influences.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Arts, Black.
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Literature -- Black authors.
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Artists, Black.
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Authors, Black.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Artists, Black
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Arts, Black
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Authors, Black
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Literature -- Black authors
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Modernism (Art) -- African influences
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Modernism (Literature)
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Avantgarde
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Schwarze
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Paris
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USA
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Karibik
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sweeney, Fionnghuala
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Marsh, Kate, 1974-2019.
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| ISBN |
9780748646418 |
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0748646418 |
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