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Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism : Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilks, Jennifer M., 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Comparative literature > Caribbean (French) and American.
Comparative literature > American and Caribbean (French)
Modernism (Literature) > Caribbean Area.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Women, Black, in literature.
Race in literature.
Caribbean literature (French) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French) > Black authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: model modernity
  • A dying exoticism: the enigmatic fiction of Suzanne Lacascade
  • The limits of exemplarity: Marita Bonner's alternative modernist landscapes
  • Surrealist dreams, Martinican realities: the negritude of Suzanne Cesaire
  • Black modernism in retrospect: Dorothy West's new (Negro) women
  • Conclusion: atypical women revisited.