Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance

by Miriam Thaggert

Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine existing stereotypes. Miriam Thaggert identifies and analyzes an early form of black American modernism characterized by a heightened level of experimentation with visual and verbal techniques for narrating and representing blackness. The work of the writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558498311
• ISBN13: 9781558498310
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher