The Resource Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism : Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne C{u28A5}saire, Dorothy West, Jennifer M. Wilks
Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism : Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne C{u28A5}saire, Dorothy West, Jennifer M. Wilks
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- Summary
- "Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers often overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899-1971), Martinican Suzanne Cesaire (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, and explores how these writers tapped into modernist currents from expressionism to surrealism to produce progressive treatments of race, gender, and nation that differed from those of currently canonized black writers of the era, the great majority of whom are men." "Wilks begins with Lacascade, whom she deems "best known for being unknown," reading Lacascade's novel Claire-Solange, ame africaine (1924) as a proto feminist, proto-Negritude articulation of Caribbean identity. She then examines the fissures left unexplored in New Negro visions of African American community by showing the ways in which Bonner's essays, plays, and short stories highlight issues of economic class. Cesaire applied the ideas and techniques of surrealism to the French language, and Wilks reveals how her writings in the journal Ttopiques (1941-45) directly and insightfully engage the intellectual influences that informed the work of canonical Negritude. Wilks's close reading of West's The Living Is Easy (1948) provides a retrospective critique of the forces that continued to circumscribe women's lives in the midst of the social and cultural awakening presumably embodied in the New Negro." "To show how the black literary tradition has continued to confront the conflation of gender roles with social and literary conventions, Wilks examines these writers alongside the late-twentieth-century writings of Maryse Conde and Toni Morrison. Unlike many literary analysts, Wilks does not bring together the four writers based on geography. Lacascade and Cesaire came from different Caribbean islands, and though Bonner and West were from the United States, they never crossed paths. In considering this eclectic group of women writers together, Wilks reveals the analytical possibilities opened up by comparing works influenced by multiple intellectual traditions."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 259 pages
- Contents
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- 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 C{u2973}aire
- Black modernism in retrospect: Dorothy West's new (Negro) women
- Conclusion: atypical women revisited
- Isbn
- 9780807133644
- Label
- Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism : Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne C{u28A5}saire, Dorothy West
- Title
- Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism
- Title remainder
- Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne C{u28A5}saire, Dorothy West
- Statement of responsibility
- Jennifer M. Wilks
- Subject
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- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- American literature -- Women authors
- American literature -- Women authors
- American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Autorin
- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean literature (French) -- Black authors
- Caribbean literature (French) -- Black authors
- 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
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Frankophone Karibik
- American literature -- African American authors
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature) -- Caribbean Area
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Schwarze
- USA
- United States
- United States
- Women, Black, in literature
- Women, Black, in literature
- Women, Black, in literature
- Literatur
- American literature -- African American authors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers often overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899-1971), Martinican Suzanne Cesaire (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, and explores how these writers tapped into modernist currents from expressionism to surrealism to produce progressive treatments of race, gender, and nation that differed from those of currently canonized black writers of the era, the great majority of whom are men." "Wilks begins with Lacascade, whom she deems "best known for being unknown," reading Lacascade's novel Claire-Solange, ame africaine (1924) as a proto feminist, proto-Negritude articulation of Caribbean identity. She then examines the fissures left unexplored in New Negro visions of African American community by showing the ways in which Bonner's essays, plays, and short stories highlight issues of economic class. Cesaire applied the ideas and techniques of surrealism to the French language, and Wilks reveals how her writings in the journal Ttopiques (1941-45) directly and insightfully engage the intellectual influences that informed the work of canonical Negritude. Wilks's close reading of West's The Living Is Easy (1948) provides a retrospective critique of the forces that continued to circumscribe women's lives in the midst of the social and cultural awakening presumably embodied in the New Negro." "To show how the black literary tradition has continued to confront the conflation of gender roles with social and literary conventions, Wilks examines these writers alongside the late-twentieth-century writings of Maryse Conde and Toni Morrison. Unlike many literary analysts, Wilks does not bring together the four writers based on geography. Lacascade and Cesaire came from different Caribbean islands, and though Bonner and West were from the United States, they never crossed paths. In considering this eclectic group of women writers together, Wilks reveals the analytical possibilities opened up by comparing works influenced by multiple intellectual traditions."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wilks, Jennifer M.
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS153.N5.W68
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- American literature
- Caribbean literature (French)
- Caribbean literature (French)
- Race in literature
- Women, Black, in literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature)
- Comparative literature
- Comparative literature
- Autorin
- Literatur
- USA
- Frankophone Karibik
- Schwarze
- American literature
- American literature
- Caribbean literature (French)
- Modernism (Literature)
- Race in literature
- Women, Black, in literature
- Caribbean Area
- United States
- Label
- Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism : Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne C{u28A5}saire, Dorothy West, Jennifer M. Wilks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 C{u2973}aire -- Black modernism in retrospect: Dorothy West's new (Negro) women -- Conclusion: atypical women revisited
- Control code
- ocn221151750
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807133644
- Lccn
- 2008014734
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Race, gender, & comparative Black modernism : Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne C{u28A5}saire, Dorothy West, Jennifer M. Wilks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 C{u2973}aire -- Black modernism in retrospect: Dorothy West's new (Negro) women -- Conclusion: atypical women revisited
- Control code
- ocn221151750
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807133644
- Lccn
- 2008014734
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- American literature -- Women authors
- American literature -- Women authors
- American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Autorin
- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean literature (French) -- Black authors
- Caribbean literature (French) -- Black authors
- 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
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Frankophone Karibik
- American literature -- African American authors
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature) -- Caribbean Area
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Schwarze
- USA
- United States
- United States
- Women, Black, in literature
- Women, Black, in literature
- Women, Black, in literature
- Literatur
- American literature -- African American authors
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