Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde

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-l...