Modernism and the Middle PassageModernism and the Middle Passage challenges the typical perception of modernism as solely focused on the new and immediate, disregarding historical catastrophes. In truth, the transatlantic slave trade profoundly influenced the works of both Black and white writers. This book uncovers how modernists engaged with the Middle Passage, thereby disrupting Western concepts of time and space, race and gender, and the very notion of what it means to be human.