Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition /

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Author / Creator:	Hill, Lena M., author.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 166 Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 166.
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. African Americans in literature. African Americans in art. Blacks -- Race identity. African Americans -- Intellectual life. African Americans in art. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American literature -- African American authors. Blacks -- Race identity. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11832632

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ISBN:	9781107692756 110769275X 9781107300392 1107300398 9781107041585 1107041589
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Negative 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.
Other form:	Print version: Hill, Lena M. Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition 9781107041585

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