Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual And Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance - Couverture souple

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813539773 ISBN 13 : 9780813539775

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta's frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries.

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American and African-American literature, cultural studies, and feminist theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813539773
• ISBN 13: 9780813539775
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible