Afromodernisms
Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde
Will be published approx. on 31. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-3995-6733-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Key Features:
Sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism
Opening essay from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Bill Lawson
Identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris and the Caribbean
Addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship
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.
Key Features:
Sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism
Opening essay from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Bill Lawson
Identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris and the Caribbean
Addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship
Reviews / Votes
Convincingly demonstrates the ways in which the period under consideration helped "define the aesthetics and politics of the twentieth century, and through this [the collection] links the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic" -- Dominic Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles * French Studies *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
12 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-6733-6 (9781399567336)
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Persons
Fionnghuala Sweeney is a Lecturer in the School of English, Drama & Film at University College Dublin. She is the author of Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World (University of Liverpool Press, 2007) and co-editor, with D Dolowitz and S Buckler, of Researching Online (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Kate Marsh is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815 (Pickering & Chatto, 2009) and Fictions of 1947: Representations of Indian Decolonization, 1919-1962 (Peter Lang, 2007); and the co-editor, with N Frith, of France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Loss and la fracture coloniale (Lanham, 2010).