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Title Paris, capital of the black Atlantic : literature, modernity, and diaspora / edited by Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne
Published Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (375 pages)
Series A modern fiction studies book
Modern fiction studies book.
Contents Afro-modernism. Cultural artifacts and the narrative of history : W.E.B. Du Bois and the exhibiting of culture at the 1900 Paris exposition universelle / Rebecka Rutledge Fisher -- "The only real white democracy" and the language of liberation : the great war, France, and African American culture in the 1920s / Mark Whalan -- "No one, I am sure is ever homesick in Paris" : Jessie Fauset's French imaginary / Claire Oberon Garcia -- Writing home : comparative Black modernism and form in Jean Toomer and Aime Cesaire / Jennifer M. Wilks -- Embodied fictions, melancholy migrations : Josephine Baker's cinematic celebrity / Terri Francis -- Postwar Paris and the politics of literature. Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes / Kevin Bell -- "One is mysteriously shipwrecked forever in the great new world" : James Baldwin from New York to Paris / Douglas Field -- Making culture capital : Presence Africaine and diasporic modernity in post-World War II Paris / Cedric Tolliver -- Richard Wright's "island of hallucination" and the Gibson affair / Richard Gibson -- Entering the politics of the outside : Richard Wright's critique of marxism and existentialism / Jeffrey Atteberry -- From Negritude to migritude. Rene, Louis and Leopold : Senghorian negritude as a black humanism / Michel Fabre (translated by Randall Cherry and Jonathan P. Eburne) -- Nos ancĂȘtres, les diallobes : Cheikh Hamidou Kane's ambiguous adventure and the paradoxes of Islamic negritude / Marc Caplan -- Redefining Paris : transmodernity and francophone African migritude fiction / Pius Adesanmi -- Interurban Paris : Alain Mabanckou's invisible cities / Dawn Fulton -- Afterword : europhilia, francophilia, negrophilia in the making of modernism / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Summary "Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris--whether literally or imaginatively--by black writers. These collected essays explore the transatlantic circulation of ideas, texts, and objects to which such travels to Paris contributed. Editors Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne expand upon an acclaimed special issue of the journal Modern Fiction Studies with four new essays and a revised introduction"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 19, 2013)
Subject American literature -- France -- Paris -- African American authors -- History and criticism
African literature -- History and criticism
Caribbean literature -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- France -- Paris
Black people -- France -- Paris
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American.
African literature
American literature -- African American authors
Black people
Caribbean literature
Modernism (Literature)
France -- Paris
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Braddock, Jeremy
Eburne, Jonathan P
ISBN 9781421410043
1421410044