할렘 르네상스 시대 아프리카계 미국문학의 모더니티
The Modernity of African American Literature during the Harlem Renaissance Era
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This study aims to redefine and reconstruct the African American Literature of Harlem Renaissance era with subversive perspectives to the canonical definitions of the traditional modernism. Modernism has been used to designate only some selected white writers and their texts, which are characteristic of a highly particular set of practices and techniques, such as anti-narrativity, anti-linearity, self-referentiality, internalization, disruption of linear plot, and fragmentation of point of view. The modernistic practices have been regarded as Modernism yardsticks or evaluative criteria that serve as the foundation for the modernistic canon by traditional modernistic critics and scholars. Therefore, the African American literature of the early twentieth century, the same period as Modernism was prevailing, has not been free of the long-standing claims that are not new, subversive, and revolutionary. However, the newness and revolutionary shift of African American Literature becomes more visible when it is measured by its racial and cultural lens, not by the modernistic yardsticks or criteria. This new lens, which ‘The New Modernists’ wear, seek to disrupt the selective tradition of Modernism. They are devoted to canon expansion and the recuperation of Modernist texts or texts which are written during the modern period but are either neglected or denigrated. They argue that African American writings should not be measured in terms of the standard characteristic of Modernism. They also argue that the African American writers deserve to be considered Modernists too because they were committed to the modernistic project of questioning conventions.
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This study aims to redefine and reconstruct the African American Literature of Harlem Renaissance era with subversive perspectives to the canonical definitions of the traditional modernism. Modernism has been used to designate only some selected white writers and their texts, which are characteristic of a highly particular set of practices and techniques, such as anti-narrativity, anti-linearity, self-referentiality, internalization, disruption of linear plot, and fragmentation of point of view. The modernistic practices have been regarded as Modernism yardsticks or evaluative criteria that serve as the foundation for the modernistic canon by traditional modernistic critics and scholars. Therefore, the African American literature of the early twentieth century, the same period as Modernism was prevailing, has not been free of the long-standing claims that are not new, subversive, and revolutionary. However, the newness and revolutionary shift of African American Literature becomes more visible when it is measured by its racial and cultural lens, not by the modernistic yardsticks or criteria. This new lens, which ‘The New Modernists’ wear, seek to disrupt the selective tradition of Modernism. They are devoted to canon expansion and the recuperation of Modernist texts or texts which are written during the modern period but are either neglected or denigrated. They argue that African American writings should not be measured in terms of the standard characteristic of Modernism. They also argue that the African American writers deserve to be considered Modernists too because they were committed to the modernistic project of questioning conventions.
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