Portraits of the New Negro Woman : : Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance / / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson.
Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: The Iconography of the Mulatta
- Chapter 1. "A Plea for Color": Nella Larsen's Textual Tableaux
- Chapter 2. Jessie Fauset's New Negro Woman Artist and the Passing Market
- Chapter 3. "Black Beauty Betrayed": The Modernist Mulatta in Black and White
- Chapter 4. The Geography of the Mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane
- Chapter 5. Redressing the New Negro Woman
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author