Race and New Modernisms

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, edouard 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.>

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• Authors: James A Crank, James A. Crank, James A. (University of Alabama Crank, K Merinda Simmons, K. Merinda Simmons, K. Merinda (University of Alabama Simmons
• Assisted by: Gayle Rogers (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781350030404
• ISBN: 978-1-350-03040-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: New Modernisms; New Modernisms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General