Afromodernisms : Paris, Harlem and the avant-garde / edited by Fionnghuala Sweeney and Kate Marsh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Afromodernisms : Black modernist practice in contemporary context / Fionnghuala Sweeney -- Black modernism and the making of the twentieth century : Paris, 1919 / Tyler Stovall -- Futurist responses to African American culture / Przemyslaw Strożek -- Creating homoutopia : Féral Benga's body in the in the matrix of modernism / James Smalls -- Modernism, anthropology, Africanism and the self : Herston and Herskovits on/in Haiti / Claudine Raynaud -- Asymmetrical possessions : Zora Neale Hurston and the gendered fictions of Black modernity / Samantha Pinto -- "Forget Paris?" : transnationalism in the spiritual works of Karl Parboosingh / Claudia Hucke -- "Death to any one that puts his foot in No Man('s) Land" : "afromodernist" reimagining and aesthetic experimentation in Horace Pippin's World War I manuscripts and paintings / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Making the word flesh : three at the threshold of tomorrow / Barbara Lewis -- "Thinking in hieroglyphics" : representations of Egypt in the New Negro Renaissance / Rachel Forebrother -- Afterword: Stormy weather and Afromodernism / Bill E. Lawson.

"These 10 new chapters stretch and challenge current canonical configurations of modernism in two key ways: by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as key actors and core presences in the development of a modernist avant-garde; and by interrogating 'blackness' as an aesthetic and political category at critical moments during the twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term 'Afromodernisms' and the first study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic."-- Publisher website.