Images of black modernism : verbal and visual strategies of the Harlem renaissance /

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Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine existing stereotypes. Miriam Thaggert identifies and analyzes an early form of black American modernism ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thaggert, Miriam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010].
Temas:
1900-1999
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
African American art > 20th century.
Art in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
African Americans in art.
African Americans in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Art noir américain > 20e siècle.
Art dans la littérature.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans l'art.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
African American art
African Americans in literature
African Americans in art
African Americans > Intellectual life
American literature > African American authors
Art in literature
Harlem Renaissance
Modernism (Literature)
Visual perception in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a crisis in Black art and literature
  • Tone pictures: James Weldon Johnson's experiment in dialect
  • Reading the body: fashion, etiquette, and narrative in Nella Larsen's Passing
  • Surface effects: satire, race, and language in George Schuyler's Black no more and "the Negro-art hokum"
  • Collectin' Van Vechten: the narrative and visual collections of Carl Van Vechten
  • A photographic language: camera lucida and the photography of James Van Der Zee and Aaron Siskind
  • Conclusion. remembering Harlem: Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem" exhibition.

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