This book reveals how modernists turned to the Middle Passage--and, in so doing, upended Western ideas about time and space, race and gender, and the category of the human.
Laura Winkiel is professor of English and affiliate faculty in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A past president of the Modernist Studies Association, she is the author of Modernism: The Basics (2017) and Modernism, Race, and Manifestos (2008), as well as a coeditor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (2005).
