Afromodernisms

Download or read book Afromodernisms written by Fionnghuala Sweeney and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.