Title: Images of Black modernism
Description: "Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine existing stereotypes. Miriam Thaggert identifies and analyzes an early form of black American modernism characterized by a heightened level of experimentation with visual and verbal techniques for narrating and representing blackness. The work of the writers and artists under discussion reflects the creative tension between the intangibility of some forms of black expression, such as spirituals, and the materiality of the body evoked by other representations of blackness, such as 'Negro' dialect. By paying special attention to the contributions of photographers and other visual artists who have not been discussed in previous accounts of black modernism, Thaggert expands the scope of our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and contributes to a growing recognition of the importance of visual culture as a distinct element within, and not separate from, black literary studies"--Publisher description.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, Visual perception in literature, Art in literature, African American art, History and criticism, American literature, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism (Literature), African Americans in art, African American authors, Intellectual life, African Americans, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, African americans, intellectual life
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century