Looking for Harlem : urban aesthetics in African American literature /

Maria Balshaw.

Looking for Harlem : urban aesthetics in African American literature / PRINT Maria Balshaw. - London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press, 2000. - x, 169 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. New Negroes, New Spaces -- Racialised Urbanity -- From the Harlem Special Issue to The New Negro -- Fire!! Magazine -- 2. Space, Race and Identity -- The H of Harlem -- Harlem Hierarchies: Racial Performance, Social Space -- The Conjure Man Dies -- 3. Passing and the Spectacle of Harlem -- New Women, New Negroes -- Spectacle, Race and Gender -- Danse Sauvage -- Passing Encounters, City Scenes -- A Vital, Glowing Thing -- 4. Women in the City of Refuge -- 'The Closing Door' -- The Silent Story -- 'On Being Young -- A Woman -- and Colored' -- Frye Street: All the World is There -- 'Nothing New' -- Black Notes/City Notes -- 5. Consumer Desire and Domestic Urbanism -- Reading the Urban Domestic -- The Street -- Reading the Signs Inside -- Small Victories -- 6. Elegies of Harlem -- Looking For Langston -- Looking For ... or At? -- Bitch or Dumpling Girl.

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1900-1999


American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African American aesthetics.
Aesthetics, American.
Harlem Renaissance.


Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--In literature.
New York (State)--New York--Harlem.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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