Modernism and Race

by Len Platt

Book Overview

The 'transnational' turn has transformed modernist studies, challenging Western authority over modernism and positioning race and racial theories at the very centre of how we now understand modern literature. Modernism and Race examines relationships between racial typologies and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on fin de si cle versions of anthropology, sociology, political science, linguistics and biology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521519446
• ISBN13: 9780521519441
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"