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Author:

Wilks, Jennifer M., 1973-

Title:

Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism : Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Cé́saire, Dorothy West / Jennifer M. Wilks.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (French)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Modernism (Literature)--Caribbean Area.
Literature, Comparative--American and Caribbean (French)
Literature, Comparative--Caribbean (French) and American.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0807133647 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807133644 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)221151750

LCCN:

2008014734

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)