Race and the Modern Artist by Hathaway, Heather; Jarab, Josef; Melnick, Jeffrey (editors) - 2003

New York: Oxford Univ Press. New with no dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. For decades it has been a given that American modernism was the purview of a narrow group of white Euro-Americans. Writers on the margin - African Americans, Jews, and Latinos, for instance - have long been considered too political or too parochial to have a place in the modernist canon. The essays in this collection, written in tribute to the late African American historian Nathan Huggins by his colleagues and students, take as their premise that high modernism, as traditionally understood, was not the only significant reaction by American artists to the revolutionary changes that defined the modern era. They examine the disputed relationships between modernity, modernism, and American cultural diversity. It adds an important new dimension to understanding 20th century literature. Includes an index. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .