Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic : Literature, Modernity, and Diaspora /
"Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris--whether literally or imaginatively--by...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Afro-modernism. Cultural artifacts and the narrative of history : W.E.B. Du Bois and the exhibiting of culture at the 1900 Paris exposition universelle / Rebecka Rutledge Fisher
- "The only real white democracy" and the language of liberation : the great war, France, and African American culture in the 1920s / Mark Whalan
- "No one, I am sure is ever homesick in Paris" : Jessie Fauset's French imaginary / Claire Oberon Garcia
- Writing home : comparative Black modernism and form in Jean Toomer and Aime Cesaire / Jennifer M. Wilks
- Embodied fictions, melancholy migrations : Josephine Baker's cinematic celebrity / Terri Francis
- Postwar Paris and the politics of literature. Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes / Kevin Bell
- "One is mysteriously shipwrecked forever in the great new world" : James Baldwin from New York to Paris / Douglas Field
- Making culture capital : Presence Africaine and diasporic modernity in post-World War II Paris / Cedric Tolliver
- Richard Wright's "island of hallucination" and the Gibson affair / Richard Gibson
- Entering the politics of the outside : Richard Wright's critique of marxism and existentialism / Jeffrey Atteberry
- From Negritude to migritude. Rene, Louis and Leopold : Senghorian negritude as a black humanism / Michel Fabre (translated by Randall Cherry and Jonathan P. Eburne)
- Nos ancêtres, les diallobes : Cheikh Hamidou Kane's ambiguous adventure and the paradoxes of Islamic negritude / Marc Caplan
- Redefining Paris : transmodernity and francophone African migritude fiction / Pius Adesanmi
- Interurban Paris : Alain Mabanckou's invisible cities / Dawn Fulton
- Afterword : europhilia, francophilia, negrophilia in the making of modernism / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.