Race and the Modern Artist

by Hathaway, Heather; Jarab, Josef; Melnick, Jeffrey (editors)

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New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2003. First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. What is the relationship between modernity and modernism? Between high modernism and what used to be called minority literature? For decades it has been a given that American modernism was the purview of a narrow group of white Euro-Americans. Writers on the margin - African Americans, Jews, and Latinos, for instance - have long been considered too political or too parochial to have a place in the modernist canon. The essays in this collection, written in tribute to the late African American historian Nathan Huggins by his colleagues and students, take as their premise that high modernism, as traditionally understood, was not the only significant reaction by American artists to the revolutionary changes that defined the modern era. The essays here examine the disputed relationships between modernity, modernism, and American cultural diversity. This volume insists on many modernisms and, in doing so, adds an important new dimension to our understanding of 20th century literature. 266 pages including an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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