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Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual And Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance
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by Cherene Sherrard-johnson
Sales Rank: 750700
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Cover Type: Paperback with 210 pages
Published by: Rutgers March 25, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0813539773
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813539775
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Book Description
Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulattas frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. Portraits of the New Negro lady investigates the visual and literary images of black femininity that occurred between the two world wars. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson traces the origins and popularization of these new representations in the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance and how they became an ambiguous symbol of racial uplift constraining African American womanhood in the early twentieth century.
In this engaging narrative, the author uses the writings of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset as well as the work of artists like Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson to illuminate the centrality of the mulatta by looking at a variety of competing arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond.
About The Author
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American and African-American literature, cultural studies, and feminist theory.
Reader Reviews
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson is a remarkably talented young lady who has produced a magnificently written book, Portraits of the New Negro Woman. This should be required reading for American and African American studies. I look forward to her next publication.
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