Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

Portraits of the New Negro Woman

Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this engaging narrative, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson uses the writings of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset as well as the work of artists like Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson to illuminate the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of competing arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 160mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780813539775
• ISBN-10: 0813539773
• Artikelnr.: 21605986

Autorenporträt

Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Iconography of the Mulatta Chapter 1. "A Plea for Color": Nella Larsen's Textual Tableaux
Chapter 2. Jessie Fauset's New Negro Woman Artist and the Passing Market
Chapter 3. "Black Beauty Betrayed": The Modernist Mulaata in Black and White
Chapter 4. The Geography of the Mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane
Chapter 5. Redressing the New Negro Woman Notes Bibliography Index