Looking for Harlem : urban aesthetics in African American literature / Maria Balshaw. PRINT
Publication details: London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press, 2000.Description: x, 169 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0745313345
- 9780745313344
- 0745313396
- 9780745313399
- 1900-1999
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 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
- 810.93 WI Bal
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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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