Images of Black modernism : verbal and visual strategies of the Harlem Renaissance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thaggert, Miriam
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans in literature. African Americans in art. Visual perception in literature. Art in literature. African American art > 20th century. Harlem Renaissance. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. Modernism (Literature) > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: a crisis in Black art and literature
Tone pictures: James Weldon Johnson's experiment in dialect
Reading the body: fashion, etiquette, and narrative in Nella Larsen's Passing
Surface effects: satire, race, and language in George Schuyler's Black no more and "the Negro-art hokum"
Collectin' Van Vechten: the narrative and visual collections of Carl Van Vechten
A photographic language: camera lucida and the photography of James Van Der Zee and Aaron Siskind
Conclusion. remembering Harlem: Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem" exhibition.