Harlem crossroads : Black writers and the photograph in the twentieth century

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Title:

Harlem crossroads : Black writers and the photograph in the twentieth century

Author:

Blair, Sara.

Personal Author:

Blair, Sara.

Publication Information:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]

Physical Description:

xxi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

A riot of images: Harlem and the pursuit of modernity -- Documenting Harlem: images and afterlives -- From Black voices to Black power: Richard Wright and the trial of documentary -- Ralph Ellison, photographer -- Photo-text capital: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the uses of Harlem -- Dodging and burning: the writer and the image after the Civil Rights Era -- Coda looking back: Toni Morrison and the return to Plato's cave.

Subject Term:

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Photography -- United States -- History.

Photography -- Philosophy.

Modernism (Literature) -- United States.

African American aesthetics.

Geographic Term:

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History.

ISBN:

9780691130873