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

Thaggert, Miriam.

Images of Black Modernism Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance / [Recurso electrónico] : Miriam Thaggert. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xiii, 248 p. :) ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Libro Electrónico

9781613760505 1613760507




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.

PS153.N5 / T455 2010

810.9/896073

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