Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studies. These 10 new chapters stretch and challenge 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 twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term "Afromodernisms" and the first study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic.