Backwards Modernity

The Crisis , Miscellaneity, and the Legacy of Slavery

verfasst von

Ruth Mayer

Abstract

This article looks at the Crisis’s intervention in the periodical modernity of the 1910s in the United States. While the magazine modeled itself on white periodicals of the period, it also clearly stands out. Instead of focusing on W. E. B. Du Bois’s role as an editor, this article foregrounds the collective principle of miscellaneity and the ways in which this traditional form changes in its use in the Crisis. The Crisis refracts the multiplicity of modern experiences marred by the specters of a past that is not really over but largely unacknowledged—a backwards modernity.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Englisches Seminar
LG American Studies
Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of Modern Periodical Studies

Band

15

Seiten

101-120

Anzahl der Seiten

20

ISSN

1947-6574

Publikationsdatum

15.07.2024

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Kommunikation, Bildende und darstellende Künste

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.15.1.0101 (Zugang: Geschlossen)