Race, American literature and transnational modernisms

Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious book, Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among a range of American, African...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Patterson, Anita Haya (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 2008
Colección:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [155]
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: towards a comparative American poetics
  • Transnational topographies in Poe, Eliot and St.-John Perse
  • Hybridity and the New World: Laforgue, Eliot and the Whitmanian poetics of the frontier
  • From Harlem to Haiti: Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain and the avant-gardes
  • Signifying modernism in Wilson Harris's Eternity to season
  • Beyond apprenticeship: Derek Walcott's passage to the Americas