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Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic : Literature, Modernity, and Diaspora.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Modern Fiction Studies Book SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (375 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421410043
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paris, Capital of the Black AtlanticDDC classification:
  • 809/.93324436
LOC classification:
  • PS159.F8.P37 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Afro-Modernism -- CHAPTER 1 Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of History: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle -- CHAPTER 2 "The Only Real White Democracy" and the Language of Liberation: The Great War, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s -- CHAPTER 3 "No One, I Am Sure, Is Ever Homesick in Paris": Jessie Fauset's French Imaginary -- CHAPTER 4 Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire -- CHAPTER 5 Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity -- Postwar Paris and the Politics of Literature -- CHAPTER 6 Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes -- CHAPTER 7 "One Is Mysteriously Shipwrecked Forever, in the Great New World": James Baldwin from New York to Paris -- CHAPTER 8 Making Culture Capital: Présence Africaine and Diasporic Modernity in Post-World War II Paris -- CHAPTER 9 Richard Wright's "Island of Hallucination" and the Gibson Affair -- CHAPTER 10 Entering the Politics of the Outside: Richard Wright's Critique of Marxism and Existentialism -- From Négritude to Migritude -- CHAPTER 11 René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Négritude as a Black Humanism -- CHAPTER 12 Nos Ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and the Paradoxes of Islamic Négritude -- CHAPTER 13 Redefining Paris: Transmodernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction -- CHAPTER 14 Interurban Paris: Alain Mabanckou's Invisible Cities -- Afterword: Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia in the Making of Modernism -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Afro-Modernism -- CHAPTER 1 Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of History: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle -- CHAPTER 2 "The Only Real White Democracy" and the Language of Liberation: The Great War, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s -- CHAPTER 3 "No One, I Am Sure, Is Ever Homesick in Paris": Jessie Fauset's French Imaginary -- CHAPTER 4 Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire -- CHAPTER 5 Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity -- Postwar Paris and the Politics of Literature -- CHAPTER 6 Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes -- CHAPTER 7 "One Is Mysteriously Shipwrecked Forever, in the Great New World": James Baldwin from New York to Paris -- CHAPTER 8 Making Culture Capital: Présence Africaine and Diasporic Modernity in Post-World War II Paris -- CHAPTER 9 Richard Wright's "Island of Hallucination" and the Gibson Affair -- CHAPTER 10 Entering the Politics of the Outside: Richard Wright's Critique of Marxism and Existentialism -- From Négritude to Migritude -- CHAPTER 11 René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Négritude as a Black Humanism -- CHAPTER 12 Nos Ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and the Paradoxes of Islamic Négritude -- CHAPTER 13 Redefining Paris: Transmodernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction -- CHAPTER 14 Interurban Paris: Alain Mabanckou's Invisible Cities -- Afterword: Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia in the Making of Modernism -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness.

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