Afromodernisms
Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2013
265 pages
978-0-7486-4641-8 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Afromodernisms - Black Modernist Practice in Contemporary Context
- I. Paris, blackness and the avant-garde
- Chapter 1 Black Modernism and the Making of the Twentieth Century: Paris, 1919
- Chapter 2 Futurist Responses to African American Culture
- Chapter 3 Creating Homoutopia: Féral Benga's Body in the Matrix of Modernism
- II. Afromodern Caribbean
- Chapter 4 Modernism, Anthropology, Africanism and the Self: Hurston and Herskovits on/in Haiti
- Chapter 5 Asymmetrical Possessions: Zora Neale Hurston and the Gendered Fictions of Black Modernity
- Chapter 6 'Forget Paris?' - Transnationalism in the Spiritual Works of Karl Parboosingh
- III. Harlem: Metaphors of modern experience
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 8 Making the Word Flesh: Three at the Threshold of Tomorrow
- Chapter 9 'Thinking in hieroglyphics': Representations of Egypt in the New Negro Renaissance
- Afterword: Stormy Weather and Afromodernism
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
