Crossroads Modernism - 9780816638925

Crossroads ModernismDescent and Emergence in African-American Literary Culture\nAuthor(s): Edward M. Pavlic\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816638925, 978-0816638925\nSynopsis\nAn essential reconsideration of black literature and culture and its response to modernity\n\nIn the African American encounter with modernism, all was not confrontation. Rather, as Edward M. Pavlic 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, Pavlics book re-envisions the potentials and dilemmas where the different traditions of modernism meet and firmly establishes African American modernism at this cultural crossroads.\n\nOffering new insights into the work of a variety of African American artists-including Ralph Elli.