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From the Harlem and Southern Renaissances to postcolonial writing in the Caribbean,
Race and New Modernisms introduces and critically explores key issues and debates on race and ethnicity in the study of transnational modernism today.
Topics covered include:
· Key terms and concepts in scholarly discussions of race and ethnicity
· European modernism and cultural appropriation
· Modernism, colonialism, and empire
· Southern and Harlem Renaissances
· Social movements and popular cultures in the modernist period
Covering writers and artists such as Josephine Baker, W.E.B. Du Bois, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Marcus Garvey, Édouard Glissant, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Paul Robeson, the book considers the legacy of modernist discussions of race in twenty-first century movements such as Black Lives Matter.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Coming to Terms: Identifying Race and New Modernisms
Ch. 1: Lost Languages: Ex-Pat Primitivism and European Modernity in Translation
Ch. 2: The Birth of Many Nations: Imperial Modernisms in the Caribbean
Ch. 3: Re-Turning South (Again): Renaissances and Regionalism
Ch. 4: The Art of Ideology: Black Aesthetics and Politics in Modernist Harlem
Ch. 5: Selling Otherness: Racial Performance and Modernist Marketing
Coda: Who’s the Matter
Works Cited
Works Consulted
About the author
K. Merinda Simmons is Associate Professor at the University of Alabama, USA. Her books include Changing the Subject: Writing Women Across the African Diaspora (2014) and The Trouble with Post-Blackness (co-edited with Houston A. Baker, Jr., 2015).James A. Crank is Associate Professor at the University of Alabama, USA. His books include Understanding Sam Shepard (2012), New Approaches to Gone with the Wind (2015), and Understanding Randall Kenan (2019).
Summary
From the Harlem and Southern Renaissances to postcolonial writing in the Caribbean, Race and New Modernisms introduces and critically explores key issues and debates on race and ethnicity in the study of transnational modernism today.
Topics covered include:
· Key terms and concepts in scholarly discussions of race and ethnicity
· European modernism and cultural appropriation
· Modernism, colonialism, and empire
· Southern and Harlem Renaissances
· Social movements and popular cultures in the modernist period
Covering writers and artists such as Josephine Baker, W.E.B. Du Bois, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Marcus Garvey, Édouard Glissant, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Paul Robeson, the book considers the legacy of modernist discussions of race in twenty-first century movements such as Black Lives Matter.
Foreword
An accessible and authoritative guide to key current debates on modernism and race, from the Harlem Renaissance to Hemingway's Cuban adventures.
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This is a lucid guide to the complex relationship between conceptions of race and the diverse cultures of modernism. Simmons and Crank invite readers to consider multiple aspects of race in the early 20th century, demonstrating that any understanding of regional, national, and global modernisms is inseparable from an understanding of racial discourses.
