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Modernism, Race and Manifestos

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ISBN-10: 0521896185

ISBN-13: 9780521896184

Edition: 2008

Authors: Laura Winkiel, Laura A. Winkiel

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The modernist avant-garde used manifestos to outline their ideas, cultural programs and political agendas. Yet the manifesto, as a document of revolutionary change and a formative genre of modernism, has heretofore received little critical attention. This study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping the modernist movement by investigating twentieth-century manifestos from Europe and the Black Atlantic. Manifestos by writers from the imperial metropolis and the colonial 'periphery' drew very different emphases in their recasting of histories and experiences of modernity. Laura Winkiel examines archival materials as well as canonical texts to analyse how Sylvia Pankhurst,…    
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Book details

List price: $83.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Laura Doyle is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture won the Barbara and George Perkins Award from the Narrative Society. She is author of Liberty's Empire: Race and the Force of Freedom in Atlantic Modernity.Laura Winkiel is Assistant Professor of English at Iowa State University. She has published articles on Djuna Barnes, Elizabeth Robins, and Valerie Solanas. She is completing a book project on manifestos, modernism, and race.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: manifestos, race, and modernity
Cosmopolitan London, 1906-1914
Women's suffrage melodrama and burlesque
Futurism's music hall and India Docks
Vorticism's cabaret modernism and racial spectacle
Transnational Modernisms, 1934-1938
Nancy Cunard's Negro and black transnationalism
Reading across the color line: Virginia Woolf, C. L. R. James, and Suzanne and Aime Cesaire
Epilogue: manifestos: then and now
Index