Afromodernisms by Fionnghuala Sweeney, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and 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 keyactors 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 toaddress together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic. | Afromodernisms by Fionnghuala Sweeney, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters