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Harlem crossroads : Black writers and the photograph in the twentieth century / Sara Blair

Catalog Data

Author:
Blair, Sara  Search this
Physical description:
xxi, 353 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Date:
2007
C2007
20th century
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
Topic:
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism  Search this
Politics and literature--History  Search this
African Americans--Intellectual life  Search this
Photography--History  Search this
Photography--Philosophy  Search this
Modernism (Literature)  Search this
African American aesthetics  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_897254