Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms

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ID19945907
AuthorsAnita Patterson (0000-0002-2530-3628, corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-04-10
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueRace, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511485619
OpenAlexW4301499327
Open LibraryOL10438442M
ISBN9780511485619
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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 American and Caribbean authors. Works by Whitman, Poe, Eliot, Pound and their avant-garde contemporaries served as a heritage for black poets in the US and elsewhere in the New World. In tracing these connections, Patterson argues for a renewed focus on intercultural and transnational dialogue in modernist studies. This bold and imaginative work of transnational literary and historical criticism sets canonical American figures in fascinating contexts and opens up readings of Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, and Aime Cesaire. This book will be of interest to scholars of American and African American literature, modernism, postcolonial studies, and Caribbean literature

American literature · American poetry · Art · Art history · Criticism · Empire · Literary criticism · Literature · Poetry · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · 20th century · African American authors · American poetry, african american authors · American poetry, history and criticism · Caribbean poetry · Caribbean poetry (English) · Caribbean poetry, history and criticism · History and criticism · Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) · Modernism (Literature) · Postcolonialism in literature · Transnationalism in literature

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