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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Eburne, Jonathan P., Braddock, Jeremy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.