Race, American literature and transnational modernisms / Anita Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Anita Haya, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 155.

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 155

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Transnationalism in literature.

Caribbean poetry (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Caribbean poetry (English).

Postcolonialism in literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Race, American Literature & Transnational Modernisms

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious book, Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among a range of American, African American and Caribbean authors. Works by Whitman, Poe, Eliot, Pound and their avant-garde contemporaries served as a heritage for black poets in the US and elsewhere in the New World. In tracing these connections, Patterson argues for a renewed focus on intercultural and transnational dialogue in modernist studies. This bold and imaginative work of transnational literary and historical criticism sets canonical American figures in fascinating contexts and opens up readings of Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, and Aime Cesaire. This book will be of interest to scholars of American and African American literature, modernism, postcolonial studies, and Caribbean literature.

Contents:

Introduction: towards a comparative American poetics

Transnational topographies in Poe, Eliot and St.-John Perse

Hybridity and the New World: Laforgue, Eliot and the Whitmanian poetics of the frontier

From Harlem to Haiti: Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain and the avant-gardes

Signifying modernism in Wilson Harris's Eternity to season

Beyond apprenticeship: Derek Walcott's passage to the Americas.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-234) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18607-2

1-281-37082-7

9786611370824

0-511-39444-6

0-511-48561-1

0-511-39509-4

0-511-39246-X

0-511-39115-3

0-511-39375-X

OCLC:

476152719