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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 421–424.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... This said, all three
books present rich and nuanced studies allowing us to better understand the
tensions and anxieties surrounding U.S cultural and ethnic identity.
Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University
Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander
Crummell...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 880–882.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Lindsey Andrews Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture . By Ahad Badia Sahar . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2010 . xi , 195 pp. $40.00 . Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance . By Thaggert...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 639–669.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in the aftermath of World War I while also anticipating the reappropriation of the cubist collage aesthetic by African American artists such as Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence. 13 By placing Edwards in an art-historical genealogy and highlighting her attunement to mass visual culture, we can retain...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 775–803.
Published: 01 December 2009
... related to his time at Mary's boarding house, accrue new meaning when considered in light of Ellison's broader investment in visual culture. Ultimately, Ellison creates a relationship between narrative and visuality that redefines simplistic perspectives on African American identity. As the titular...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 93–125.
Published: 01 March 2009
... a complicated form of resistance that alters our understandings of antebellum African American aesthetic production and the history of nineteenth-century visual culture more generally. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Sarah Fugitive Obscura:
Blackwood Runaway Slave Portraiture...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 509–545.
Published: 01 September 2011
... African Americans to feel more assimilated than American Indians and reminding them that the dominant culture considered even the unassimilated Indian to be racially superior to the black man. Finally, Johnston's photos of public schools attended by white children transform images of Indian objects...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
Published: 01 June 2011
... their relationship in familial terms
by naming Colossus, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler her brothers.25
Simultaneously, Storm’s embodiment of the black female “disco diva”
that dominated gay and African American visual culture—namely
through her cascading mane of white hair, her hyperbolic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 501–526.
Published: 01 September 2008
...).
19 Robyn Wiegman, American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (Dur-
ham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1995), 6.
20 Nicholas Mirzoeff, “Introduction,” in Diaspora and Visual Culture: Rep-
resenting Africans and Jews, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff (London: Routledge,
2000), 2, 3, 2.
21...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 833–869.
Published: 01 December 2004
... that they demand a visually informed consideration,
but the content of her fiction is anchored in a critique of the visual
images of African American women then circulating throughout the
culture and limiting the mobility of the New Negro woman in the intel-
lectual and artistic communities of the ‘‘talented...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 880–882.
Published: 01 December 2006
... literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming their justified centrality,
too, followed by the era of the multiethnic and the multicultural, when Jewish
writers, if included...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 885–887.
Published: 01 December 2006
... literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming their justified centrality,
too, followed by the era of the multiethnic and the multicultural, when Jewish
writers, if included...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 882–884.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Roth et al.—
were recognized in the 1950s as having achieved a breakthrough into the
mainstream of American literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 897–899.
Published: 01 December 2006
...
the creation of collective African American identities, while being particularly
mindful of distinctive African diasporic cultural retentions. In a meticulous
reading of nineteenth-century antebellum archives, John Ernest demonstrates
that historical writing not only served to correct the record distorted...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 894–897.
Published: 01 December 2006
... literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming their justified centrality,
too, followed by the era of the multiethnic and the multicultural, when Jewish
writers, if included...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Roth et al.—
were recognized in the 1950s as having achieved a breakthrough into the
mainstream of American literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 876–877.
Published: 01 December 2006
...
the creation of collective African American identities, while being particularly
mindful of distinctive African diasporic cultural retentions. In a meticulous
reading of nineteenth-century antebellum archives, John Ernest demonstrates
that historical writing not only served to correct the record distorted...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2006
... literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming their justified centrality,
too, followed by the era of the multiethnic and the multicultural, when Jewish
writers, if included...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 869–872.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Roth et al.—
were recognized in the 1950s as having achieved a breakthrough into the
mainstream of American literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 878–879.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Roth et al.—
were recognized in the 1950s as having achieved a breakthrough into the
mainstream of American literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 887–889.
Published: 01 December 2006
... literature and culture (along with, of course, those
earlier marginals—Southern writers). Then came the long-delayed recogni-
tion of African American and women writers claiming their justified centrality,
too, followed by the era of the multiethnic and the multicultural, when Jewish
writers, if included...
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