Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Afro-Modernism -- CHAPTER 1 Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of History: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle -- CHAPTER 2 "The Only Real White Democracy" and the Language of Liberation: The Great War, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s -- CHAPTER 3 "No One, I Am Sure, Is Ever Homesick in Paris": Jessie Fauset's French Imaginary -- CHAPTER 4 Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire -- CHAPTER 5 Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity -- Postwar Paris and the Politics of Literature -- CHAPTER 6 Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes -- CHAPTER 7 "One Is Mysteriously Shipwrecked Forever, in the Great New World": James Baldwin from New York to Paris -- CHAPTER 8 Making Culture Capital: Présence Africaine and Diasporic Modernity in Post-World War II Paris -- CHAPTER 9 Richard Wright's "Island of Hallucination" and the Gibson Affair -- CHAPTER 10 Entering the Politics of the Outside: Richard Wright's Critique of Marxism and Existentialism -- From Négritude to Migritude -- CHAPTER 11 René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Négritude as a Black Humanism -- CHAPTER 12 Nos Ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and the Paradoxes of Islamic Négritude -- CHAPTER 13 Redefining Paris: Transmodernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction -- CHAPTER 14 Interurban Paris: Alain Mabanckou's Invisible Cities -- Afterword: Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia in the Making of Modernism -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.