By Jeremy Braddock,Jonathan P. Eburne
Paris has continuously interested and welcomed writers. through the 20th and into the twenty-first century, writers of yankee, Caribbean, and African descent have been no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris—whether actually or imaginatively—by black writers. those accrued essays discover the transatlantic stream of principles, texts, and gadgets to which such travels to Paris contributed.
Editors Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne extend upon an acclaimed specific factor of the magazine Modern Fiction Studies with 4 new essays and a revised advent. starting with W. E. B. Du Bois’s journey to Paris in 1900 and finishing with the modern nation of diasporic letters within the French capital, this assortment embraces theoretical shut readings, materialist highbrow reports of networks, comparative essays, and writings on the intersection of literary and visible experiences. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic is exclusive either in its concentrate on literary fiction as a proper and sociological classification and within the diversity of examples it brings to endure at the query of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness.
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