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Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition / Lena Hill, University of Iowa.
Van Pelt Library PS153.N5 H55 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Lena M., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 167.
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- African Americans in literature.
- African Americans in art.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107041585
- 1107041589
- OCLC:
- 854848203
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