Looking for Harlem : urban aesthetics in African American literature / Maria Balshaw. PRINT

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.