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The modernist avant-garde used manifestos to outline their ideas, cultural programs and political agendas. Yet the manifesto, as a document of revolutionary change and a formative genre of modernism, has heretofore received little critical attention. This 2007 study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping the modernist movement by investigating twentieth-century manifestos from Europe and the Black Atlantic. Manifestos by writers from the imperial metropolis and the colonial 'periphery' drew very different emphases in their recasting of histories and experiences of modernity. Laura Winkiel examines archival materials as well as canonical texts to analyse how Sylvia Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Wyndham Lewis, Nancy Cunard, C. L. R. James, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Aimé Césaire and others presented their modernist projects. This focus on manifestos in their geographical and historical context allows for a revision of modernism that emphasizes its cross-cultural aspects.

Literary manifestos. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Artists' writings --- Historical criticism (Literature) --- Literary manifestos --- Modernism (Art) --- Polemics. --- Propaganda --- Public opinion --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Literary manifestoes --- Manifestoes, Literary --- Manifestos, Literary --- Criticism --- Literature and history --- Artists' literary writings --- Writings of artists --- Arts and Humanities

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Modernism as a global phenomenon is the focus of the essays gathered in this book. The term 'geomodernisms' indicates their subjects' continuity with and divergence from commonly understood notions of modernism. The contributors consider modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world.

Race in literature --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- History and criticism