Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition /

Negative stereotypes of African Americans have long been disseminated through the visual arts. This original and incisive study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African Ame...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill, Lena M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Colección:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 166.
Temas:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in art.
Black people > Race identity.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans l'art.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > African American authors.
Schwarze
Literatur
Schwarze > Motiv
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the trope of the picture book
  • Witnessing moral authority in pre-abolition literature
  • Picturing education and labor in Washington and Du Bois
  • Gazing upon plastic art in the Harlem Renaissance
  • Zora Neale Hurston : seeing by the rules of the natural history museum
  • Melvin Tolson : gaining modernist perspective in the art gallery
  • Ralph Ellison : engaging racial perception beyond museum walls
  • Coda : redefining the look of american character.

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