Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-garde
Author(s): Fionnghuala Sweeney (Author, Editor), Kate Marsh (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date: 6 Feb. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 074864640X
- ISBN-13: 9780748646401
Book Description
This title makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. This study stretches and challenges 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. It sets a new agenda for the study of blackness and modernism. It includes specially commissioned contribution from Tyler Stovall on Black Modernism and an Afterword from Demetrius Eudell on 'What to the Negro is Modernism?' It identifies key locations of modernism: Harlem, Paris, Haiti. It addresses the question of gender, often overlooked in black Atlantic scholarship.
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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 Fionnghuala Sweeney is Lecturer in American Literature and University College Dublin. Her research is on nineteenth and twentieth-century African American literature and culture, literature and slavery, internationalist dimensions of the New Negro movement, and intersections between Ireland and the black Atlantic. Kate Marsh is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Liverpool. She has written widely on post-1754 French history and literature, and French colonial and regional history. Her publications include: India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815, (2009), and the collection, edited with Nicola Frith, France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Loss, and la fracture colonial, (2010).
About the Author
Fionnghuala Sweeney is a Lecturer in the School of English, Drama & Film at University College Dublin. Kate Marsh is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Liverpool.
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Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde
Author(s): Fionnghuala Sweeney (Editor), Kate Marsh
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date: 31 July 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1399567330
- ISBN-13: 9781399567336
Book Description
Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studies
- 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
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.
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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
About the Author
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).
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