Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition /

Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Lena M. (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 166.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in art.
Blacks > Race identity.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.