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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweeney, Fionnghuala, Author.

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:

1 online resource (vii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748684410

0748684417

9781299456495

1299456499

9780748646418

0748646418

OCLC:

839386936