Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-GardePersuasively argues for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies These 9 new chapters stretch current canonical configurations of modernism in two key ways: by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as key actors and core presences in the development of a modernist avant garde; and by interrogating 'blackness' as an aesthetic and political category at critical moments during the early