Race and New Modernisms

Av K. Merinda Simmons, James A. Crank, Sean Latham

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PROSE Award for Excellence in Literature Finalist 2020From 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 periodCovering 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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-05
Mått: 138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt: 413 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Serie: New Modernisms
Antal sidor: 226
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781350030404
Utmärkelser: Short-listed for The PROSE Award 2020 (UK)

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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). 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).

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Race and New Modernisms is a quick and handy introduction to the last 25 years of modernist scholarship, but perhaps its real value will serve in announcing that we’re entering a new, as yet unnamed era in modernist studies.

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