TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hill, Lena M..
TI  - Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition
T2  - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 
SN  - 9781107041585 (hardback : alk. paper)
U1  - 810.9896073 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  -  African American authors
KW  -  History and criticism
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - African Americans in art
KW  - Blacks
KW  -  Race identity
KW  - African Americans
KW  -  Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index;  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
ER  -