Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde

Makes A Persuasive Case For A Black Atlantic Literary Renaissance & Its Impact On Modernist Studies. 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.