Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde

Fionnghuala Sweeney; Kate Marsh

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

Afromodernisms

Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde

Fionnghuala Sweeney and Kate Marsh

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748646418

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About this book

Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studies

These 10 new chapters stretch and challenge 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 twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term 'Afromodernisms' and the first study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic.

Key Features

Sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism
Specially commissioned contribution from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Demetrius Eudell on 'What to the Negro is Modernism?'
Identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris, Haiti
Addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction: Afromodernisms – Black Modernist Practice in Contemporary Context Fionnghuala Sweeney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Paris, blackness and the avant-garde
1. Black Modernism and the Making of the Twentieth Century: Paris, 1919 Tyler Stovall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Futurist Responses to African American Culture Przemysław Strożek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Creating Homoutopia: Féral Benga’s Body in the Matrix of Modernism James Smalls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
II. Afromodern Caribbean
4. Modernism, Anthropology, Africanism and the Self: Hurston and Herskovits on/in Haiti Claudine Raynaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5. Asymmetrical Possessions: Zora Neale Hurston and the Gendered Fictions of Black Modernity Samantha Pinto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
6. ‘Forget Paris?’ – Transnationalism in the Spiritual Works of Karl Parboosingh Claudia Hucke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
III. Harlem: Metaphors of modern experience
7. ‘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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
8. Making the Word Flesh: Three at the Threshold of Tomorrow Barbara Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
9. ‘Thinking in hieroglyphics’: Representations of Egypt in the New Negro Renaissance Rachel Farebrother Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Afterword: Stormy Weather and Afromodernism Bill E. Lawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 12 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: February 6, 2013
ISBN: 9780748646418