Race, American literature and transnational modernisms
By: Anita Patterson.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture -- [155]
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780521884051
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Transnationalism in literature; Caribbean poetry (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: towards a comparative American poetics; title: Transnational topographies in Poe, Eliot and St.-John Perse; title: Hybridity and the New World: Laforgue, Eliot and the Whitmanian poetics of the frontier; title: From Harlem to Haiti: Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain and the avant-gardes; title: Signifying modernism in Wilson Harris's Eternity to season; title: Beyond apprenticeship: Derek Walcott's passage to the Americas.