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M ODERNISM AND RACE Th e ‘transnational’ turn has transformed modernist studies, chal- lenging Western authority over modernism and positioning race and racial theories at the very centre of how we now understand mod- ern literature. Modernism and Race examines relationships between racial typologies and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on fi n de siècle versions of anthropol- ogy, sociology, political science, linguistics and biology. Collectively, these essays interrogate the anxieties and desires that are expressed in or projected onto racialised fi gures. Th ey include new outlines of how the critical fi eld has developed, revaluations of canonical modernist fi gures like James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis, and accounts of writers often positioned at the margins of modernism, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay and the Holocaust writers Solomon Perel and Gisella Perl. Th is timely collection by leading scholars of modernism will make an important contribution to this growing fi eld. is Professor of Modern Literatures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Joyce, Race and ‘Finnegans Wake’ (Cambridge, ). MODERNISM A ND R ACE E LN PLATT Goldsmiths College, University of London Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City C ambridge University Press Th e Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/ © C ambridge University Press Th is publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Modernism and race / [edited by] Len Platt. p. cm. ---- (hardback) . English literature–th century–History and criticism. . English literature– th century–History and criticism. . Modernism (Literature)–English-speaking countries. . Race in literature. I. Platt, Len. . .′–dc ---- Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. oCntents Notes on contributors page v ii nItroduction Len Platt Germanism, the modern and ‘England’ – –: a literary overview Len Platt ‘ All these fellows are ourselves’: Ford Madox Ford, race and Europe Max Saunders ‘’Tis optophone which ontophanes’: race, the modern and Irish revivalism K aori Nagai Generating modernism and New Criticism from antisemitism: Laura Riding and Robert Graves read T. S. Eliot’s early poetry Donald J. Childs Race, modernism and the question of late style in Kipling’s racial narratives D avid Glover Atlantic modernism at the crossing: the migrant labours of Hurston, McKay and the diasporic text Laura Doyle C laude McKay in Britain: race, sexuality and poetry Howard J. Booth v vi Contents Wyndham Lewis and the modernists: internationalism and race D avid Ayers ‘Until Hanandhunigan’s extermination’: Joyce, China and racialised world histories F inn Fordham Race, gender and the Holocaust: traumatic modernity, traumatic modernism P hyllis Lassner nIdex Notes on contributors si Professor of Modernism and Critical Th eory in the School of English at the University of Kent. He is the author of Wyndham Lewis and Western Man (), E nglish Literature of the s (), M odernism: A Short Introduction () and Literary Th eory: A Reintroduction (). His research in this volume is supported by the Leverhulme Trust. . si Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester. Th e author of many articles on nineteenth- and twentieth- century writing and culture, he co-edited Modernism and Empire with Nigel Rigby (), and has edited New D. H. Lawrence () and Th e Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling (). . si Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He has published T . S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover (), From Philosophy to Poetry: T. S. Eliot’s Study of Knowledge and Experience () and M odernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats and the Culture of Degeneration (). i s Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst. Her publications include Bordering on the Body: Th e Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (, awarded the Perkins Prize) and F reedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, – () as well as two edited collections, Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture () and Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (). Her essays have appeared in Literature Compass, Atlantic Studies, J TAS, M odernism/ Modernity, M odern Fiction Studies and American Literature . Her cur- rent project on the dialectics of global literary history in the longue durée is supported by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. vii viii Notes on contributors si a lecturer at Royal Holloway College, London. He has published essays on Joyce, genetic criticism, modern poetry and contemporary fi ction. He is the author of Lots of Fun at ‘Finnegans Wake’: Unravelling Universals () and I Do I Undo I Redo: Th e Textual Genesis of Modernist Selves (). i s a senior elcturer at the University of Southampton. His publications include G enders (with Cora Kaplan) (; nd edn ) and V ampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (). He is currently completing a cultural his- tory of the Aliens Act and co-editing (with Scott McCracken) Th e Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction . i s Professor in the Crown Centre for Jewish Studies, the Gender Studies and Writing Programs at Northwestern University. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen (, ), British Women Writers of World War II (), C olonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of Empire () and many articles on interwar and war- time women writers. Her latest book, Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses, was published in . She is co-editor of Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-fi rst Centuries () and R umer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller (). t eaches at the University of Kent. She is the author of Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland (). She has edited a journal collection entitled Dream Writing (J ournal of European Studies , December ), and co-edited a book collection, K ipling and Beyond: Patriotism, Globalisation and Postcolonialism (). She recently held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her work on Esperanto in early twentieth-century Britain. s i Professor in Modern Literatures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His published books include J oyce and the Anglo-Irish (), Aristocracies of Fiction: Th e Idea of Aristocracy in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Literature (), (with Dave Walsh) Musical Th eatre and American Culture (), M usical Comedy on the West End Stage – () and J oyce, Race and ‘Finnegans Wake’ (). i s Professor of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research at Kings College, London. He is a leading Notes on contributors ix expert on Edwardian and modernist literature. His publications include Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life , vols. () and S elf Impression: Life- Writing, Autobiografi ction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (). He has edited several volumes of Ford’s writing, and is also the General Editor of the annual series International Ford Madox Ford Studies .
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