The title of the volume captures the stark absence of the acknowledgement of Whiteness at the core of Anglophone Modernism and in Modernist Studies. What happens when a nation suddenly has “too many women”? After World War I, Britain’s 1921 census indicated there were two million more women than men in the population. Newspapers quickly … Continue reading
The Healing Power of Storytelling: Exploring Black Women’s Literature in Womb Work
Black women writers and scholars have been engaged in the process of repairing and restoring history especially as it documents the experiences of Black women in America. This Black History Month, we spotlight Womb Work, a novel that powerfully asserts the importance of Black women’s stories in shaping a fuller, more critical understanding of American … Continue reading
The Bright Side of Modernity
In this exclusive commentary, Coletta revisits the central ideas explored in her book, Decadent Modernity, discussing the bright side of modernity, analysing the complexities and contradictions of our fast-changing world and the idea of ‘Latin America’ as a geo-political region.
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