Paris, capital of the Black Atlantic : literature, modernity, and diaspora / edited by Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braddock, Jeremy, editor.

Eburne, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Paul), editor.

Series:

Modern fiction studies book.

A modern fiction studies book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

American literature--France--Paris--African American authors--History and criticism.

Black people--France--Paris.

Black people.

Caribbean literature--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Modernism (Literature)--France--Paris.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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.

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 1920's / 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 ancêtres, 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 19, 2013).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781421410043

1421410044

OCLC:

867741608