Images of Black Modernism : Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thaggert, Miriam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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