The Image and the Fire by Whit Frazier Peterson - 9781625349514

The Image and the FireThe Subversive Anthology in the Twentieth Century\nAuthor(s): Whit Frazier Peterson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625349514, 978-1625349514\nSynopsis\nRacial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology\n\nThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthologya small, outsider literary collectionas a key, yet understudied, instrument of literary intervention within American modernism. Whit Frazier Peterson argues that these anthologies, produced outside of institutional or canonical frameworks, served as deliberate challenges to dominant literary paradigms. Distinct from academic anthologies that helped codify the American literary canon, coterie anthologies were used by both white and Black avant-garde movements to disrupt prevailing cultural narratives and assert alternative literary visions.\n\n Through close analysis of three seminal case studie.