D. H. Lawrence and Black Modernism

The first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence and Black writers, Laura Ryan examines connections between Lawrence and four key Black and mixed-race modernist writers Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston positioning all five as co-creators of modernism.Ryan investigates both the responses of these writers to Lawrence's writing and the ways in which Black modernist...