Contents

pp iii-iv

List of illustrations

pp v-v

Acknowledgements

pp vi-viii

Introduction: Afromodernisms – Black Modernist Practice in Contemporary Context

pp 1-16

I - Paris, blackness and the avant-garde

pp 17-18

1 - Black Modernism and the Making of the Twentieth Century: Paris, 1919

pp 19-42

2 - Futurist Responses to African American Culture

pp 43-61

3 - Creating Homoutopia: Féral Benga's Body in the Matrix of Modernism

pp 62-100

II - Afromodern Caribbean

pp 101-102

4 - Modernism, Anthropology, Africanism and the Self: Hurston and Herskovits on/in Haiti

pp 103-125

5 - Asymmetrical Possessions: Zora Neale Hurston and the Gendered Fictions of Black Modernity

pp 126-143

6 - ‘Forget Paris?’ – Transnationalism in the Spiritual Works of Karl Parboosingh

pp 144-166

III - Harlem: Metaphors of modern experience

pp 167-168

7 - ‘Death to any one that puts his foot in No Man['s] Land’: ‘Afromodernist’ Reimagining and Aesthetic Experimentation in Horace Pippin's World War I Manuscripts and Paintings

pp 169-191

8 - Making the Word Flesh: Three at the Threshold of Tomorrow

pp 192-203

9 - ‘Thinking in hieroglyphics’: Representations of Egypt in the New Negro Renaissance

pp 204-231

Afterword: Stormy Weather and Afromodernism

pp 232-242

Notes on Contributors

pp 243-246

Index

pp 247-256