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Contributors PIUS ADESANMI teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Carleton University. He is a two-time Fellow of the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and has contributed essays on literature and culture to several learned journals, literary reviews, newspapers, and edited books. His poetry collection , TheWayfarer and Other Poems, won the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize in 2001. JEFFREY ATTEBERRY, at the time his article was written, taught at the University of California, Irvine. KEVIN BELL is an associate professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University and the author of AshesTaken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity. He is now completing a book on black experimental writing and cinema entitled DriftVelocities: Black Fragments in Explorative Literature, Film, and Theory. JEREMY BRADDOCK is an associate professor of English at Cornell University and the author Collecting as Modernist Practice, which was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2012. He is now working on a study of libraries and archives in the twentieth century. MARC CAPLAN is the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Professor ofYiddish Literature , Language, and Culture in the Department of German and Romance Languages at the Johns Hopkins University. His first book, How Strange the Change: Language,Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms, was published by Stanford University Press in 2011. RANDALL CHERRY is a translator and writer living in Paris. He has published articles in Nobody KnowsWhere the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History and in Temples forTomorrow. He has translated numerous works into English from French, notably the novel Le Nègre by the French surrealist author Philippe Soupault. JONATHAN P. EBURNE is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime and is currently working on a book entitled OutsiderTheory. MICHEL FABRE was professor emeritus at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He was the author or translator of more than twenty books dealing with transnational black culture, including The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright, From Harlem to Paris: Black AmericanWriters in France, 1840–1980, and, with Ed Margolies, The Several Lives of Chester Himes. 354 Contributors DOUGLAS FIELD is a senior lecturer in English at Staffordshire University, United Kingdom. He is the editor of American ColdWar Culture and A Historical Guide to James Baldwin, and he is the author of James Baldwin in the series Writers and Their Work. REBECKA RUTLEDGE FISHER is an assistant professor of African American literature and literary theory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her forthcoming book is titled Habitations of theVeil:The Poetics of Metaphor before and after Du Bois. TERRI FRANCIS is an associate professor of film studies and African American studies atYale University. She is the author of Melancholy Muse:The Spectacle of Josephine Baker and the Erotics of Cinema. DAWN FULTON, associate professor of French studies at Smith College, has published Signs of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism and articles on works by Calixthe Beyala, Leïla Sebbar, and Mounsi. She is currently working on a project on urbanism in Francophone literature of migration. CLAIRE OBERON GARCIA is a professor of English at Colorado College. Her recent publications include chapters in Henry James’s Europe: Heritage andTransfer , From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances, and The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Arts, Politics, and Letters. RICHARD GIBSON began his career as a journalist with the Philadelphia edition of The Afro American Newspapers and continued with the Christian Science Monitor in Rome, the Agent France-Presse in Paris, and CBS News in NewYork. For many years an international correspondent based in Rome, London, and Brussels, he is the author of a novel, A Mirror for Magistrates (1958); a survey, African Liberation Movements (1972); and a workers’ educational manual, The ILO in the Service of Social Progress (1995). T. DENEAN SHARPLEY-WHITING is Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French atVanderbilt University and author, editor, or coeditor of twelve books, the latest of which is the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, 2nd edition. CEDRIC TOLLIVER is an assistant professor of English at the University of Houston , where he teaches African American literature and literary theory. He is currently working on a book project, OfVagabonds and FellowTravelers, which studies African diasporic cultural work in the early Cold War period. MARK WHALAN is an associate professor and the Eve E. and Robert D. Horn Chair of English...

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