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Author:

Blair, Sara.

Title:

Harlem crossroads : Black writers and the photograph in the twentieth century / Sara Blair.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxi, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Photography--United States--History.
Photography--Philosophy.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--History.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African American aesthetics.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
Noirs américains--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
Photographie--États-Unis--Histoire.
Photographie--Philosophie.
Modernisme (Littérature)--États-Unis.
Esthétique noire américaine.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Histoire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-340) and index.

Contents:

A riot of images: Harlem and the pursuit of modernity -- Documenting Harlem: images and afterlives -- From Black voices to Black power: Richard Wright and the trial of documentary -- Ralph Ellison, photographer -- Photo-text capital: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the uses of Harlem -- Dodging and burning: the writer and the image after the Civil Rights Era -- Coda looking back: Toni Morrison and the return to Plato's cave.

ISBN:

0691130876 (alk. paper)
9780691130873 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006100313

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)