Description
Book SynopsisParis, 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Afro-Modernism
Chapter 1. Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of History: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle
Chapter 2. "The Only Real White Democracy" and the Language of Liberation: The Great War, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s
Chapter 3. "No One, I Am Sure, Is Ever Homesick in Paris": Jessie Fauset's French Imaginary
Chapter 4. Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire
Chapter 5. Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity
Part II: Postwar Paris and the Politics of Literature
Chapter 6. Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes
Chapter 7. "One Is Mysteriously Shipwrecked Forever, in the Great New World": James Baldwin from New York to Paris
Chapter 8. Making Culture Capital: Présence Africaine and Diasporic Modernity in Post–World War II Paris
Chapter 9. Richard Wright's "Island of Hallucination" and the Gibson Affair
Chapter 10. Entering the Politics of the Outside: Richard Wright's Critique of Marxism and Existentialism
Part III: From Négritude to Migritude
Chapter 11. René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Négritude as a Black Humanism
Chapter 12. Nos Ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and the Paradoxes of Islamic Négritude
Chapter 13. Redefining Paris: Transmodernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction
Chapter 14. Interurban Paris: Alain Mabanckou's Invisible Cities
Afterword: Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia in the Making of Modernism
List of Contributors
Index
