Download or read book Afromodernisms written by Fionnghuala Sweeney and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book stretches and challenges current canonical configurations of modernism by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as core presences in the development of a modernist avant-garde; and by interrogating 'blackness' as