Cultures of emancipation
Subtitle: photography, race, and modern american literature
By: Jullia Faisst
Series: American studies - a monograph series -- v. 228; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 228.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9783825359706
Subjects: Literature and photography; Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Art); Photography; Influence; History; Visual perception in literature; African American aesthetics; African Americans; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247).
Table of contents: title: Degrees of exposure : Frederick Douglass, daguerreotypes, and representations of freedom; title: Show business : the economics of photography in Harold Frederic's "Marsena" and Henry James's New York edition; title: Words are not the thing : Gertrude Stein's literary portraits, Four saints in three acts, and popular culture; title: Shadow archive : lynching photography, Afro-Modernist literature, and Black citizenship.