Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime

by Carrie Noland

Carrie Noland approaches Negritude as an experimental, text-based poetic movement developed by diasporic authors of African descent through the means of modernist print culture. Engaging primarily the works of Aim C saire and L on-Gontran Damas, Noland shows how the demands of print culture alter the personal voice of each author, transforming an empirical subjectivity into a hybrid, textual entity that she names, after Theodor Adorno, an "aesthetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231167040
• ISBN13: 9780231167048
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher