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Author:

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxi, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780813539775 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813539773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813539768 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813539765 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65820144

LCCN:

2006011342

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)