Hill, Lena M.. <br/><br/>
Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition / 
Lena Hill, University of Iowa. 
 - xvii, 275 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;    166 .
 - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;    166. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index. 
<br/><br/>  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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107041585 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.<br/>African Americans in literature.<br/>African Americans in art.<br/>Blacks -- Race identity.<br/>African Americans -- Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9896073  / HIL [ Shelf 3 ]