Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic: Literature, Modernity, and Diaspora

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne Afro-Modernism CHAPTER 1 Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of History: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle 17 Rebecka Rutledge Fisher CHAPTER 2 “The Only Real White Democracy” and the Language of Liberation: The Great War, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s 52 Mark Whalan CHAPTER 3 “No One, I Am Sure, Is Ever Homesick in Paris”: Jessie Fauset’s French Imaginary 78 Claire Oberon Garcia CHAPTER 4 Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire 101 Jennifer M.Wilks CHAPTER 5 Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Celebrity 124 Terri Francis Postwar Paris and the Politics of Literature CHAPTER 6 Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes 149 Kevin Bell vi Contents CHAPTER 7 “One Is Mysteriously Shipwrecked Forever, in the Great New World”: James Baldwin from NewYork to Paris 175 Douglas Field CHAPTER 8 Making Culture Capital: Présence Africaine and Diasporic Modernity in Post–World War II Paris 200 CedricTolliver CHAPTER 9 Richard Wright’s “Island of Hallucination” and the Gibson Affair 223 Richard Gibson CHAPTER 10 Entering the Politics of the Outside: Richard Wright’s Critique of Marxism and Existentialism 248 Jeffrey Atteberry From Négritude to Migritude CHAPTER 11 René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Négritude as a Black Humanism 275 Michel Fabre (translated by Randall Cherry and Jonathan P. Eburne) CHAPTER 12 Nos Ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure and the Paradoxes of Islamic Négritude 290 Marc Caplan CHAPTER 13 Redefining Paris: Transmodernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction 312 Pius Adesanmi CHAPTER 14 Interurban Paris: Alain Mabanckou’s Invisible Cities 330 Dawn Fulton Afterword: Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia in the Making of Modernism 350 T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting List of Contributors 353 Index 357 ...