The image and the fire : the subversive anthology in the twentieth century /

"The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology - a small, outsider literary collection - as a key, yet understudied, instrument of literary intervention within American modernism. Whit Frazier Peterson argues that these anthologies, produced outside of institutional or canonical framewo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Peterson, Whit Frazier (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2026]
Subjects:	Modernism (Literature) > United States. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis. Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Écrits de femmes noirs américains > Histoire et critique. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Dichotomies and collective
Des imagistes. Des imagistes and the birth of modernity
The secret doctrine of the image
Fire!! Fire!! as signifying monkey
Country and city folk life: the importance of place in Fire!!
Black fire. Conceptualizing Black fire as ritual drama
Reading Black fire as ritual drama
Conclusion: Canon theory in the twenty-first century.