Portraits of the New Negro Woman : Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance /

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Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Harlem renaissance.
Visualisation.
Representation.
Women.
Blacks.
Literatur
Frauenemanzipation
Visual perception in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Race in literature.
Icons in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Femininity in literature.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American women in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Race dans la litterature.
Feminite dans la litterature.
Perception visuelle dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Schwarze.
USA.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "A plea for color" : Nella Larsen's textual tableaux
  • Jessie Fauset's new Negro woman artist and the passing market
  • "Black beauty betrayed" : the modernist mulatta in black and white
  • The geography of the mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane
  • Redressing the new Negro woman.

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