| Race and New Modernisms Contributor(s): Simmons, K. Merinda (Author), Rogers, Gayle (Editor), Crank, James A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350030392 ISBN-13: 9781350030398 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2019002251 |
| Series: New Modernisms |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, douard 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rogers, Gayle: - Gayle Rogers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe and Literary History (OUP, 2012).Latham, Sean: - Sean Latham is Professor and Pauline Walter Chair of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa, USA. He is a former President of the Modernist Studies Association, current Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and Co-Directory of the Modernist Journals Project (http: //dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/). His many publications include The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law and the Roman a Clef (OUP, 2009) and, as Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses (CUP, 2013). |