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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009445993 Uk
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.