Race and New Modernisms

James A. Crank is Associate Professor at the University of Alabama, USA. His books include Understanding Sam Shepard (2012), New Approaches to Gone with the Wind (2015), and Understanding Randall Kenan (2019). K. Merinda Simmons is Associate Professor at the University of Alabama, USA. Her books include Changing the Subject: Writing Women Across the African Diaspora (2014) and The Trouble with Post-Blackness (co-edited with Houston A. Baker, Jr., 2015).

Race and New Modernisms is a quick and handy introduction to the last 25 years of modernist scholarship, but perhaps its real value will serve in announcing that we’re entering a new, as yet unnamed era in modernist studies.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Coming to Terms: Identifying Race and New ModernismsCh. 1: Lost Languages: Ex-Pat Primitivism and European Modernity in TranslationCh. 2: The Birth of Many Nations: Imperial Modernisms in the CaribbeanCh. 3: Re-Turning South (Again): Renaissances and RegionalismCh. 4: The Art of Ideology: Black Aesthetics and Politics in Modernist HarlemCh. 5: Selling Otherness: Racial Performance and Modernist MarketingCoda: Who’s the MatterWorks CitedWorks Consulted