Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms

Informationen zum Autor Anita Patterson is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University. Klappentext An examination of the importance of international cross-influences between modernist poets in the Americas. Zusammenfassung Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among American! African American and Caribbean authors. This bold and imaginative work of transnational literary and historical criticism sets canonical figures in fascinating contexts and will be of interest to scholars of American literature! modernism! postcolonial studies! and Caribbean literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: towards a comparative American poetics; 1. Transnational topographies in Poe, Eliot, and St.-John Perse; 2. Hybridity and the New World: Laforgue, Eliot, and the Whitmanian poetics of the Frontier; 3. From Harlem to Haiti: Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, and the Avant-Gardes; 4. Signifying modernism in Wilson Harris's Eternity to Season; 5. Beyond apprenticeship: Derek Walcott's passage to the Americas; Epilogue; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Patterson, Anita (Boston University) Patterson, Anita Haya Patterson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521884051
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88405-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies