Modernism and race / edited by Len Platt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Platt, Len, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.

Modernism (Literature).

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Modernism & Race

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 'transnational' turn has transformed modernist studies, challenging Western authority over modernism and positioning race and racial theories at the very centre of how we now understand modern literature. Modernism and Race examines relationships between racial typologies and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on fin de siécle versions of anthropology, sociology, political science, linguistics and biology. Collectively, these essays interrogate the anxieties and desires that are expressed in, or projected onto, racialized figures. They include new outlines of how the critical field has developed, revaluations of canonical modernist figures like James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis, and accounts of writers often positioned at the margins of modernism, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay and the Holocaust writers Solomon Perel and Gisella Perl. This collection by leading scholars of modernism will make an important contribution to a growing field.

Contents:

1. Germanism, the modern and 'England': 1880-1930: a literary overview / Len Platt

2. 'All these fellows are ourselves': Ford Madox Ford, race, and Europe / Max Saunders

3. 'Tis optophone which ontophanes': race, the modern and Irish revivalism / Kaori Nagai

4. Generating modernism and ew Criticism from anti-Semitism: Laura Riding and Robert Graves read T.S. Eliot's early poetry / Donald J. Childs

5 Race, modernism, and the question of late style in Kipling's racial narratives / David Glover

6. Atlantic modernism at the crossing: the migrant labours of Hurston, McKay, and the diasporic text / Laura Doyle

7. Claude McKay in Britain: race, sexuality and poetry / Howard J. Booth

8. Wyndham Lewis and the modernists: internationalism and race / David Ayers

9. 'Until Hanandhunagan's extermination': Joyce, China and racialized world histories / Finn Fordham

10. Race, gender, and the Holocaust: traumatic modernity, traumatic modernism / Phyllis Lassner.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21619-2

1-139-03629-7

1-283-05504-X

9786613055040

1-139-04175-4

1-139-04252-1

1-139-04516-4

1-139-03861-3

0-511-97392-6

1-139-04098-7

OCLC:

710974881