Portraits of the new Negro woman visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance

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Portraits of the new Negro woman visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance

Title:

Portraits of the new Negro woman visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance

Author:

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Personal Author:

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Publication Information:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

Physical Description:

xxi, 210 p. : ill.

Contents:

"A plea for color" : Nella Larsen's textual tableaux -- Jessie Fauset's new Negro woman artist and the passing market -- "Black beauty betrayed" : the modernist mulatta in black and white -- The geography of the mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Redressing the new Negro woman.

Subject Term:

American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

African American women in literature.

Racially mixed people in literature.

Icons in literature.

Visual perception in literature.

Femininity in literature.

Race in literature.

African Americans -- Race identity.

American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Harlem Renaissance.

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