Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African-American Literary Culture

by Ed Pavlić

An essential reconsideration of black literature and culture and its response to modernity

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816638926
• ISBN13: 9780816638925
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"