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Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance
Miriam Thaggert
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Paperback. Revisits an important moment in black cultural history, the years 1922 to 1938, to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine stereotypes. Thaggert identifies an early form of black American modernism characterize Num Pages: 256 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine existing stereotypes. Miriam Thaggert identifies and analyzes an early form of black American modernism characterized by a heightened level of experimentation with visual and verbal techniques for narrating and representing blackness. The work of the writers and artists under discussion reflects the creative tension between the intangibility of some forms of black expression, such as spirituals, and the materiality of the body evoked by other representations of blackness, ... Read more
Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine existing stereotypes. Miriam Thaggert identifies and analyzes an early form of black American modernism characterized by a heightened level of experimentation with visual and verbal techniques for narrating and representing blackness. The work of the writers and artists under discussion reflects the creative tension between the intangibility of some forms of black expression, such as spirituals, and the materiality of the body evoked by other representations of blackness, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558498310
SKU
V9781558498310
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