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020 _a9781107300392 (ebook)
020 _z9781107041585 (hardback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aPS153.N5
_bH55 2014
082 0 0 _a810.9896073
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100 1 _aHill, Lena,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aVisualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition /
_cLena Hill.
246 3 _aVisualizing Blackness & the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (287 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
490 0 _aCambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ;
_v167
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aNegative stereotypes of African Americans have long been disseminated through the visual arts. This original and incisive study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African American literary history, from Phillis Wheatley to Ralph Ellison, and engages with a variety of canonical and lesser-known writers. Chapters interweave literary history, museum culture, and visual analysis of numerous illustrations with close readings of Booker T. Washington, Gwendolyn Bennett, Zora Neale Hurston, Melvin Tolson, and others. Together, these sections register the degree to which African American writers rely on vision - its modes, consequences, and insights - to demonstrate black intellectual and cultural sophistication. Hill's provocative study will interest scholars and students of African American literature and American literature more broadly.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in literature
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in art
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107041585
830 0 _aCambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ;
_v167.
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107300392
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c37063
_d37063