Portraits of the new Negro woman [electronic resource] : visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson.
Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.Description: xxi, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cmOther title:- New Negro woman
- American fiction -- African American authors -- 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
- 810.9/928708996073 22
- PS153.N5 S49 2007eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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