Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
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 Césaire -- Black modernism in retrospect: Dorothy West's new (Negro) women -- Conclusion: atypical women revisited.
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Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers sometimes overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899-1971), Martinican Suzanne Césaire (1913-1966), and African American Dorothy West (1907-1998). Reexamining their most significant work, Jennifer M. Wilks demonstrates how their writing challenges prevailing racial archetypes-such as the New Negro and the Negritude hero-of the period from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism.
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Race, gender, and comparative Black modernism
American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French)-- Black authors-- History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French)-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Comparative literature-- American and Caribbean (French)
Comparative literature-- Caribbean (French) and American.