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Book SynopsisThis 2007 study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping the modernist movement by investigating how Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Wyndham Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire and others presented their modernist projects.
Trade Review'Winkiel's book offers a rich corrective to what she sees as a major blind spot in contemporary understandings of how the genre exposes political and aesthetic tensions along the color line and what they say about the process of modernity … fresh material and perspectives that have the ability to inform Woolf scholarship's commitment to continually resituating Woolf's life and work to reveal new possibilities in understanding it as studies in literature embrace an increasingly global reach.' Woolf Studies Annual
Table of Contents1. Introduction: manifestos, race, and modernity; Part I. Cosmopolitan London, 1906–14: 2. Women's suffrage melodrama and burlesque; 3. Futurism's music hall and India docks; 4. Vorticism's cabaret modernism and racial spectacle; Part II. Transnational Modernisms, 1934–8: 5. Nancy Cunard's negro and black transnationalism; 6. Reading across the Color Line: Virginia Woolf, C. L. R. James, and Suzanne and Aimé Césaire; Epilogue: manifestos: then and now; Index.
