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  • Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic

    Literature, Modernity, and Diaspora

    Series series A Modern Fiction Studies Book
    "How African-American artists and intellectuals sought greater liberty in Paris while also questioning the extent of the freedoms they so publicly praised." — American Literary HistoryParis has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black ... Read more

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  • Firesign

    The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums

    A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s told through the story of the period's most important forgotten comedy group.This expansive book reclaims the Firesign Theatre (hazily remembered as a comedy act for stoners) as critically engaged artists working in the heart of the culture industry at a time of massive social and technological change. At the intersection of popular music, ... Read more

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  • Collecting as Modernist Practice

    Series series Hopkins Studies in Modernism
    Winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize of the Modernist Studies AssociationIn this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression—the art collection, the anthology, and the archive—and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States.Using extensive archival research, Braddock's study ... Read more

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  • Love & Theft

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