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Additional authors

1. Braddock, Jeremy
2. Eburne, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Paul)

Description

1. vi, 364 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "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 black writers. These collected essays explore the transatlantic circulation of ideas, texts, and objects to which such travels to Paris contributed. Editors Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne expand upon an acclaimed special issue of the journal Modern Fiction Studies with four new essays and a revised introduction"--Page 4 of cover.

Series statement

1. A modern fiction studies book

Uniform title

1. Modern fiction studies book.

Subject

1. Literature, Modern > Black authors > History and criticism
2. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
3. African literature (French) > Black authors > History and criticism
4. Caribbean literature (French) > Black authors > History and criticism
5. Authors, Black > Homes and haunts > France > Paris
6. African American authors > Homes and haunts > France > Paris
7. Black people > France > Paris > Intellectual life
8. Black people in literature
9. African diaspora in literature
10. Paris (France) > In literature
11. Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 20th century
12. Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 21st century

Contents

1. 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 Aimé Césaire / 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 : Présence 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 Négritude to migritude. René, Louis and Léopold : Senghorian négritude as a black humanism / Michel Fabre (translated by Randall Cherry and Jonathan P. Eburne) -- Nos ancêtres, les diallobés : Cheikh Hamidou Kane's ambiguous adventure and the paradoxes of Islamic négritude / 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.

Call number

1. Sc E 15-1265

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Paris, capital of the Black Atlantic : literature, modernity, and diaspora / edited by Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne.

Publisher

1. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. A modern fiction studies book
2. Modern fiction studies book.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Braddock, Jeremy, editor.
2. Eburne, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Paul), editor.

LCCN

1. 2012935068

ISBN

1. 1421407795
2. 9781421407791 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. Sc E 15-1265
2. JFE 14-2171