Race, American literature and transnational modernisms /

Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious book, Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among a range of American, African...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patterson, Anita Haya
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 155.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American poetry > History and criticism > 20th century.
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Transnationalism in literature.
Caribbean poetry (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Poésie américaine > Histoire et critique > 20e siècle.
Poésie américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Transnationalisme dans la littérature.
Poésie antillaise (anglaise) > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry.
American poetry > African American authors.
Caribbean poetry (English)
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : towards a comparative American poetics
  • Transnational topographies in Poe, Eliot and St.-John Perse
  • Hybridity and the New World : Laforgue, Eliot and the Whitmanian poetics of the frontier
  • From Harlem to Haiti : Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain and the avant-gardes
  • Signifying modernism in Wilson Harris's Eternity to season
  • Beyond apprenticeship : Derek Walcott's passage to the Americas.

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