The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: Paleface: Volume 23

The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis brings together for the first time all of the published writings of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), a major contributor to literary modernism and one of the most important British painters of the first half of the twentieth century. This is the first ever critical edition of Wyndham Lewis's Paleface.It reproduces, with corrections, the text first published by Chatto and Windus in May 1929.Explanatory Notes trace the many sources which Lewis quotes from and alludes to; clear annotations are provided to guide the reader to a nuanced understanding of the book's cultural and intellectual range.The Afterword describes the historical context of racism against Black Americans and explores the nature of Lewis's position-taking in relation to debates about race in the USA in the 1920s.It also offers a detailed account of the composition of the book, from its first essay form published in Lewis's journal The Enemy, No. 2 (September 1927), to its revision for publi