The Group Composition of Literary Works by Esoteric Writers in the Modernist Period: A Critical Interruption of Afro-Modernism and Antimodernism|

作     者：Jon Woodson 

作者机构：Howard University 

出 版 物：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》 (外国语言与文化（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第4卷第2期

页      面：21-34页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：Afro-Modernism Western Esotericism African American literature.Jubilee New Modernisms 

摘      要：Like the other“new modernismsAfro-Modernism does not exist beyond its role as a critical *** readings given to African-American texts of the modernist period have been subjected to reductive treatments that have overlooked many *** this paper I will examine an unacknowledged feature of modernist works that radically changes the understanding of many important *** assumption of the critics of literary modernism is that individualism is a touchstone of the *** sign of the inapplicability of individuality to American modernism is the occurrence of esoteric group *** esoteric does not come into consideration by the literary critics who have established Afro-Modernism,so it is not within the scope of those investigations that challenges to individuality have been considered.