Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic: Literature, Modernity, and Diaspora (A Modern Fiction Studies Book)

How black writers travel to Paris contributed to the transatlantic circulation of art and ideas. Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Pariswhether literally or imaginativelyby black writers. These collected essays explore the transatlantic circulation of ideas, texts, and objects to which such travels to Paris contributed. Editors Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne expand upon an acclaimed special issue of the journal Modern Fiction Studies with four new essays and a revised introduction. Beginning with W. E. B. Du Boiss trip to Paris in 1900 and ending with the contemporary state of diasporic letters in the French capital, this collection embraces theoretical close readings, materialist intellectual studies of networks, comparative essays, and writings at the intersection of literary and visual studies. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness. Paris Has Always Fascinated And Welcomed Writers. Throughout The Twentieth And Into The Twenty-first Century, Writers Of American, Caribbean, And African Descent Were No Exception. Paris, Capital Of The Black Atlantic Considers The Travels Made To Paris--whether Literally Or Imaginatively--by Black Writers. These Collected Essays Explore The Transatlantic Circulation Of Ideas, Texts, And Objects To Which Such Travels To Paris Contributed. Editors Jeremy Braddock And Jonathan P. Eburne Expand Upon An Acclaimed Special Issue Of The Journal Modern Fiction Studies With Four New Essays And A Revised Introduction--page 4 Of Cover. Afro-modernism. Cultural Artifacts And The Narrative Of History : W.e.b. Du Bois And The Exhibiting Of Culture At The 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle / Rebecka Rutledge Fisher -- The Only Real White Democracy And The Language Of Liberation : The Great War, France, And African American Culture In The 1920s / Mark Whalan -- No One, I Am Sure Is Ever Homesick In Paris : Jessie Fauset's French Imaginary / Claire Oberon Garcia -- Writing Home : Comparative Black Modernism And Form In Jean Toomer And Aimé Césaire / Jennifer M. Wilks -- Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations : Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity / Terri Francis -- Postwar Paris And The Politics Of Literature. Assuming The Position : Fugitivity And Futurity In The Work Of Chester Himes / Kevin Bell -- One Is Mysteriously Shipwrecked Forever In The Great New World : James Baldwin From New York To Paris / Douglas Field -- Making Culture Capital : Présence Africaine And Diasporic Modernity In Post-world War Ii Paris / Cedric Tolliver -- Richard Wright's Island Of Hallucination And The Gibson Affair / Richard Gibson -- Entering The Politics Of The Outside : Richard Wright's Critique Of Marxism And Existentialism / Jeffrey Atteberry -- From Négritude To Migritude. René, Louis And Léopold : Senghorian Négritude As A Black Humanism / Michel Fabre (translated By Randall Cherry And Jonathan P. Eburne) -- Nos Ancêtres, Les Diallobés : Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure And The Paradoxes Of Islamic Négritude / Marc Caplan -- Redefining Paris : Transmodernity And Francophone African Migritude Fiction / Pius Adesanmi -- Interurban Paris : Alain Mabanckou's Invisible Cities / Dawn Fulton -- Afterword : Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia In The Making Of Modernism / T. Denean Sharpley-whiting. Edited By Jeremy Braddock And Jonathan P. Eburne. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris—whether literally or imaginatively—by black writers. These collected essays explore the transatlantic circulation of ideas, texts, and objects to which such travels to Paris contributed.

Editors Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne expand upon an acclaimed special issue of the journal Modern Fiction Studies with four new essays and a revised introduction. Beginning with W. E. B. Du Bois’s trip to Paris in 1900 and ending with the contemporary state of diasporic letters in the French capital, this collection embraces theoretical close readings, materialist intellectual studies of networks, comparative essays, and writings at the intersection of literary and visual studies. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness.