Modernism and Race

Len Platt editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:24th Feb '11

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Modernism and Race cover

This volume is both a synthesis of critical approaches to modernism and race, and a new contribution to this growing field.

The 'transnational' turn has transformed modernist studies, positioning race, as opposed to 'the West', at the very centre of how we now understand modern literature. The essays in this collection represent a major contribution to this important theoretical development.The 'transnational' turn has transformed modernist studies, challenging Western authority over modernism and positioning race and racial theories at the very centre of how we now understand modern literature. Modernism and Race examines relationships between racial typologies and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on fin de siécle versions of anthropology, sociology, political science, linguistics and biology. Collectively, these essays interrogate the anxieties and desires that are expressed in, or projected onto, racialized figures. They include new outlines of how the critical field has developed, revaluations of canonical modernist figures like James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis, and accounts of writers often positioned at the margins of modernism, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay and the Holocaust writers Solomon Perel and Gisella Perl. This collection by leading scholars of modernism will make an important contribution to a growing field.

'… those who seek a fresh approach to the place of Joyce and race in transnational modernist history and criticism will find valuable insights and prompts for further inquiry by mining the book's resources.' Gayle Rogers, James Joyce Quarterly

ISBN: 9780521519441

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 480g

230 pages