Afromodernisms : : Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde / / Fionnghuala Sweeney, Kate Marsh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Sweeney, Fionnghuala,; Marsh, Kate,
• MitwirkendeR: Bernier, Celeste-Marie,; Farebrother, Rachel,; Hucke, Claudia,; Lawson, Bill E.,; Lewis, Barbara,; Pinto, Samantha,; Raynaud, Claudine,; Smalls, James,; Stovall, Tyler,; Strożek, Przemysław,; Sweeney, Fionnghuala,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2021]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations

Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studiesThese 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 FeaturesSets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernismSpecially 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, HaitiAddresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Afromodernisms - Black Modernist Practice in Contemporary Context -- I. Paris, blackness and the avant-garde -- 1. Black Modernism and the Making of the Twentieth Century: Paris, 1919 -- 2. Futurist Responses to African American Culture -- 3. Creating Homoutopia: Féral Benga's Body in the Matrix of Modernism -- II. Afromodern Caribbean -- 4. Modernism, Anthropology, Africanism and the Self: Hurston and Herskovits on/in Haiti -- 5. Asymmetrical Possessions: Zora Neale Hurston and the Gendered Fictions of Black Modernity -- 6. 'Forget Paris?' - Transnationalism in the Spiritual Works of Karl Parboosingh -- III. Harlem: Metaphors of modern experience -- 7. '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 -- 8. Making the Word Flesh: Three at the Threshold of Tomorrow -- 9. 'Thinking in hieroglyphics': Representations of Egypt in the New Negro Renaissance -- Afterword: Stormy Weather and Afromodernism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index