Table of 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.