TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maria Balshaw.
TI  - Looking for Harlem: urban aesthetics in African American literature 
SN  - 0745313345
U1  - 810.93 WI Bal 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, Sterling, Va
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - LCSH
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - City and town life in literature
KW  - Cities and towns in literature
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - African American aesthetics
KW  - Aesthetics, American
KW  - Harlem Renaissance
KW  - Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - In literature
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Harlem
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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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