Backwards Modernity

The Crisis , Miscellaneity, and the Legacy of Slavery

authored by

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.

Organisation(s)

English Department
LG American Studies
Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies

Type

Article

Journal

Journal of Modern Periodical Studies

Volume

15

Pages

101-120

No. of pages

20

ISSN

1947-6574

Publication date

15.07.2024

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Communication, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.15.1.0101 (Access: Closed)