Portraits of the new Negro woman [electronic resource] : visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Icons in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Race in literature.
African Americans > Race identity.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Harlem Renaissance.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2007 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
ProQuest One Literature: 2007 (ProQuest)
Variant Title:
New Negro woman
Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • "A plea for color" : Nella Larsen's textual tableaux
  • Jessie Fauset's new Negro woman artist and the passing market
  • "Black beauty betrayed" : the modernist mulatta in black and white
  • The geography of the mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane
  • Redressing the new Negro woman.