Lena Hill

Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines how African American writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9781107041585
• ISBN-10: 1107041589
• Artikelnr.: 40450430

Autorenporträt

Lena Hill is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the co-author of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man': A Reference Guide (2008). Her work has been published in journals such as American Literature and African American Review. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the trope of the picture book
Part I. Sights of Instruction: 1. Witnessing moral authority in pre-abolition literature
2. Picturing education and labor in Washington and Du Bois
3. Gazing upon plastic art in the Harlem Renaissance
Part II. Lessons from the Museum: 4. Zora Neale Hurston: seeing by the rules of the Natural History Museum
5. Melvin Tolson: gaining modernist perspective in the art gallery
6. Ralph Ellison: engaging racial perception beyond museum walls
Coda: redefining the look of American character.