Afromodernisms : Paris, Harlem and the avant-garde / edited by Fionnghuala Sweeney and Kate Marsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sweeney, Fionnghuala.

Marsh, Kate, 1974-2019.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art)--African influences.

Modernism (Art).

Modernism (Literature)--African influences.

Modernism (Literature).

Arts, Black.

Artists, Black.

Authors, Black.

Physical Description:

vii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

Summary:

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, Interdisciplinary; covering literature, history and the visual arts Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Afromodernisms : black modernist practice in contemporary context

Black modernism and the making of the twentieth century : Paris, 1919 / Tyler Stovall

Futurist responses to African American culture / Przemysław Strożek

Creating homoutopia : Féral Benga's body in the matrix of modernism / James Smalls

Modernism, anthropology, Africanism and the self : Hurston and Herskovits on/in Haiti / Claudine Raynaud

Asymmetrical possessions : Zora Neale Hurston and the gendered fictions of black modernity / Samantha Pinto

'Forgot 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 renaissaince / Rachel Farebrother

Afterword : story weather and afromodernism / Bill E. Lawson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748646401

074864640X

OCLC:

830023999