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Afromodernisms : Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde / Fionnghuala Sweeney, Kate Marsh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 12 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748646401
  • 9780748646418
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.4112
LOC classification:
  • NX456.5.M64
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Afromodernisms - Black Modernist Practice in Contemporary Context -- I. Paris, blackness and the avant-garde -- 1. Black Modernism and the Making of the Twentieth Century: Paris, 1919 -- 2. Futurist Responses to African American Culture -- 3. Creating Homoutopia: Féral Benga's Body in the Matrix of Modernism -- II. Afromodern Caribbean -- 4. Modernism, Anthropology, Africanism and the Self: Hurston and Herskovits on/in Haiti -- 5. Asymmetrical Possessions: Zora Neale Hurston and the Gendered Fictions of Black Modernity -- 6. 'Forget Paris?' - Transnationalism in the Spiritual Works of Karl Parboosingh -- 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 -- 8. Making the Word Flesh: Three at the Threshold of Tomorrow -- 9. 'Thinking in hieroglyphics': Representations of Egypt in the New Negro Renaissance -- Afterword: Stormy Weather and Afromodernism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studiesThese 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 FeaturesSets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernismSpecially 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, HaitiAddresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Afromodernisms - Black Modernist Practice in Contemporary Context -- I. Paris, blackness and the avant-garde -- 1. Black Modernism and the Making of the Twentieth Century: Paris, 1919 -- 2. Futurist Responses to African American Culture -- 3. Creating Homoutopia: Féral Benga's Body in the Matrix of Modernism -- II. Afromodern Caribbean -- 4. Modernism, Anthropology, Africanism and the Self: Hurston and Herskovits on/in Haiti -- 5. Asymmetrical Possessions: Zora Neale Hurston and the Gendered Fictions of Black Modernity -- 6. 'Forget Paris?' - Transnationalism in the Spiritual Works of Karl Parboosingh -- 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 -- 8. Making the Word Flesh: Three at the Threshold of Tomorrow -- 9. 'Thinking in hieroglyphics': Representations of Egypt in the New Negro Renaissance -- Afterword: Stormy Weather and Afromodernism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studiesThese 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 FeaturesSets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernismSpecially 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, HaitiAddresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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