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Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition / Lena Hill, University of Iowa.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 166 | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 166.New York : Cambridge University Press, [2014]Description: xvii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107041585 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9896073 HIL [ Shelf 3 ]
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.
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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.

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