Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
Contents
Introduction: model modernity -- A dying exoticism: the enigmatic fiction of Suzanne Lacascade -- The limits of exemplarity: Marita Bonner's alternative modernist landscapes -- Surrealist dreams, Martinican realities: the negritude of Suzanne Césaire -- Black modernism in retrospect: Dorothy West's new (Negro) women -- Conclusion: atypical women revisited.