Modernism and the Middle Passage

This book reveals how modernists turned to the Middle Passage--and, in so doing, upended Western ideas about time and space, race and gender, and the category of the human.

About the author

Laura Winkiel is professor of English and affiliate faculty in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A past president of the Modernist Studies Association, she is the author of Modernism: The Basics (2017) and Modernism, Race, and Manifestos (2008), as well as a coeditor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (2005).

Product details

• Authors: Laura Winkiel, Winkiel Laura
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2025
• EAN: 9780231217248
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21724-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people