{"product_id":"crossroads-modernism","title":"Crossroads Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reconsideration of black literature and culture and its response to modernity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the African American encounter with modernism, all was not confrontation. Rather, as Edward M. Pavli´c demonstrates here, African American artists negotiated the intersection of high modernism in Europe and American discourse to fashion their own distinctive response to American modernity. A deft repositioning of black literature and culture, Pavli´c’s book re-envisions the potentials and dilemmas where the different traditions of modernism meet and firmly establishes African American modernism at this cultural crossroads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffering new insights into the work of a variety of African American artists—including Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Robert Hayden, David Bradley, Yusef Komunyakaa, Romare Bearden, and John Coltrane—Pavli´c explores the complex ways in which key modernist philosophical ideas and creative techniques have informed black culture. \u003cem\u003eCrossroads Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e also provides an in-depth look at how West African cultural legacies are brought to bear in the structure of a truly African American modernist creative process. The book brings to light two interrelated strains of black modernism: Afro-Modernism, which employs established modernist concerns and conceits to illuminate internal and psychological experience; and Diasporic Modernism, which places greater emphasis on shared cultural space and builds on traditions rooted in West African cultures.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhereas much has been said about the (generally racist) use of \"blackness\" in constituting modernism, \u003cem\u003eCrossroads Modernism \u003c\/em\u003eis the first book to expose the key role that modernism has played in the constitution of \"blackness\" in African-American aesthetics. In light of this work, canonical texts in African American literature can no longer be read as devoid of their own singular contribution to international modernism.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edward M. Pavlic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616371892604,"sku":"9780816638918","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_06cd9b68-d0eb-416f-b04d-0896d0ba516d.jpg?v=1746711705","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/crossroads-modernism","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}