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Looking for Harlem : Urban Aesthetics in African-American Literature.
Title:
Looking for Harlem : Urban Aesthetics in African-American Literature.
Author:
Balshaw, Maria.
ISBN:
9781849645164
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Criteria of Negro Art -- The Race Capital -- 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 -- 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 -- Reading the Signs Inside -- Small Victories -- 6. Elegies to Harlem -- Looking For ... or At? -- Bitch or Dumpling Girl -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One: New Negroes, New Spaces -- Chapter Two: Space, Race and Identity -- Chapter Three: Passing and the Spectacle of Harlem -- Chapter Four: Women in the City of Refuge -- Chapter Five: Consumer Desire and Domestic Urbanism -- Chapter Six: Elegies to Harlem -- Index -- Africa, and African American -- 40 -- 41 -- 149n.7 -- Africa, and African American, -- 25-6 -- 38-9 -- African American canon -- 6-9 -- 53 -- 99 -- African American modernism -- 22 -- 23 -- 54-5 -- 146n.7 -- African American women -- 46-8 -- 50-3 -- 58 -- 72 -- 78 -- 80 -- African American women writers -- 8-9 -- 10-12 -- 44 -- 67 -- 97 -- agency, black female -- 100 -- 103 -- 107 -- 120-1 -- Anderson, Jervis, This Was Harlem 73 -- authenticity -- 6 -- 7-8 -- 17 -- 49 -- 54 -- 60 -- 62 -- avant-garde cinema -- 129-30 -- 133 -- 164n.20 -- Baker Jr, Houston A. -- 7 -- 8 -- 145n.18 -- Baker, Josephine 61 -- Baraka, Amiri -- 42 -- 151n.22.

Barnes, Djuna, Nightwood 52 -- Bennett, Gwendolyn -- 22 -- 24 -- Ebony Flute, 74 -- Black Arts -- 6 -- 7 -- Black Atlantic [Gilroy] -- 2 -- 16 -- 45 -- 69 -- 81 -- 102 -- black feminism -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 51 -- 86 -- 139 -- black middle class -- 11 -- 21 -- 25 -- 48 -- 52 -- 55 -- 83 -- black modernism 20 -- blues -- 6-7 -- 35-6 -- 40 -- 129 -- bohemians -- 54 -- 55 -- 58 -- 60 -- 68 -- 132 -- Bonner, Marita -- 5 -- 11 -- 19 -- 22 -- 72-5 -- 97 -- 109 -- A Possible Triad on Black Notes, 94 -- Black Fronts, 84 -- Black Fronts, 85 -- Drab Rambles, 84 -- Drab Rambles, 85 -- Drab Rambles, 88-9 -- Frye Street, 83 -- Frye Street, 86-7 -- Frye Street, 89 -- Frye Street, 91 -- Frye Street, 94 -- Frye Street, 96 -- Hate is Nothing, 84 -- Light in Dark Places, 88 -- Nothing New, 84 -- Nothing New, 88-92 -- On The Altar, 84 -- OnBeing Young-A Woman-and Colored, 83-6 -- OnBeing Young-A Woman-and Colored, 94 -- One Boy's Story, 79-83 -- One Boy's Story, 88 -- One True Love, 85 -- Patch Quilt, 88 -- Stones For Bread, 84 -- Tin Can, 94 -- Bontemps, Arna -- 24 -- 145n.2 -- Brawley, Benjamin -- 26 -- 27 -- 38 -- 149n -- Brooker, Peter 137 -- Brooks, Gwendolyn -- 12 -- 72 -- 75 -- 97 -- 101-8 -- 113 -- A Street In Bronzeville, 100-1 -- A Street In Bronzeville, 100-1 -- A Street In Bronzeville, 102-7 -- A Street In Bronzeville, 102-7 -- Burill, Mary 73 -- Butler, Judith -- 63 -- 67-8 -- 156n.43 -- cabarets -- 19 -- 26 -- Carby, Hazel -- 9 -- 58 -- 145n.24 -- 161n.2 -- Chicago School sociology -- 10 -- 12 -- 18 -- 19 -- 102 -- Christian, Barbara -- 98 -- 112 -- Civic Club dinner -- 20 -- 74 -- commodification -- 53 -- 56 -- 58 -- 134 -- consumer culture -- 11 -- 60 -- 68 -- 75 -- 94 -- 97 -- Cotton Club, The 127 -- Crisis, The -- 24 -- 47 -- 48 -- 50 -- 72 -- 74 -- 84 -- Cullen, Countee 72 -- Davis, Thadious -- 45 -- 54 -- de Certeau, Michel.

102 -- 162n.13 -- Delany, Clarissa Scott 73 -- detective fiction 38-43 -- Diawara, Manthia -- 130 -- 164n.20 -- 164n.24 -- Doane, Mary Ann -- 68-9 -- 126 -- 127 -- domestic space -- 76-7 -- 101-7 -- 108 -- 110-12 -- Douglas, Aaron -- 24 -- 25-6 -- 74 -- Douglas, Ann -- 42 -- 137 -- 151n.23 -- Du Bois, W.E.B. -- 3 -- 34 -- 47 -- 49 -- 73 -- 98 -- Dyer, Richard 130 -- Ellison, Ralph -- 13 -- 143n.3 -- Invisible Man, 5 -- Invisible Man, 5 -- Invisible Man, 92 -- Invisible Man, 92 -- essentialism -- 8 -- 86 -- 132 -- ethnicity -- 90-2 -- 160n.37 -- eugenics -- 12 -- 37 -- 44 -- 46-52 -- 76 -- 92 -- Faderman, Lillian -- 17 -- 147n.10 -- Fanon, Franz 126-7 -- Fauset, Jessie -- 8 -- 20 -- 27 -- 47 -- 51 -- 72 -- 73 -- female social protest -- 75 -- 95-6 -- 97 -- feminism -- 12 -- 52 -- 120 -- 122 -- 143-4n.9 -- Fire!!magazine [Thurman] -- 10 -- 14 -- 23-9 -- 54 -- 89 -- Fisher, Rudolph -- 1 -- 5 -- 10 -- 24 -- 30-43 -- 51 -- 54 -- Blades of Steel, 32-6 -- City of Refuge, 14-16 -- City of Refuge, 30 -- City of Refuge, 31 -- music in, 35-6 -- The Conjure Man Dies, Miss Cynthie -- The Conjure Man Dies, 10 -- The Conjure Man Dies, 38-43 -- The Walls of Jericho, 30 -- The Walls of Jericho, 30 -- The Walls of Jericho, 36-8 -- The Walls of Jericho, 36-8 -- The Walls of Jericho, 52 -- The Walls of Jericho, 52 -- Garber, Eric -- 17 -- 147n.10 -- Garner, Margaret 81-2 -- Gates Jr, Henry Louis -- 6 -- 7 -- 85 -- 145n.20 -- Gayle, Addison -- 99-100 -- 144n.14 -- gaze -- 64-9 -- 126 -- 127 -- 132 -- 133 -- racialised, 127 -- ghetto -- 87 -- 93 -- 94 -- 99 -- 103-4 -- 106 -- Gilroy, Paul -- 2 -- 5 -- 16 -- 45 -- 81 -- 82-3 -- 102 -- Goldberg, David Theo -- 101 -- 109 -- 162n.19 -- Grimké, Angelina Weld -- 12 -- 72-9 -- 81-3 -- 94 -- 110 -- The Closing Door, 75-9 -- The Closing Door, 75-9 -- The Closing Door, 81-3 -- The Closing Door, 81-3.

The Closing Door, 87 -- The Closing Door, 87 -- Hall, Stuart -- 125 -- 127 -- 131 -- Harlem Renaissance -- 8 -- 9 -- 11 -- 19 -- 31 -- 44 -- 45 -- 60 -- and commodification, 61 -- and homosexuality, 28-9 -- and homosexuality, 73 -- and homosexuality, 74 -- and homosexuality, 127-34 -- and modernism, 11 -- and modernism, 43 -- and modernism, 54-5 -- and representation, 51 -- and women, 11-12 -- and women, 11-12 -- and women, 72-5 -- and women, 72-5 -- and women, 83 -- and women, 83 -- and women, 109 -- and women, 109 -- geographies of, 34 -- Herskovits, Melville -- 22 -- 50 -- Himes, Chester -- 4 -- 31 -- 42 -- homophobia -- 128-9 -- 164n.25 -- homosexuality -- 13 -- 17 -- 27-9 -- 73 -- 125 -- hooks, bell 126 -- Huggins, Nathan -- 6 -- 73 -- Hughes, Langston -- 2 -- 23 -- 24 -- 31 -- 47 -- 73 -- 83 -- Hull, Gloria T. -- 72 -- 75 -- Hurston, Zora Neale -- 8 -- 9 -- 72 -- 89 -- Hutchinson, George, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White -- 19 -- 73 -- 144n.15 -- 149n.34 -- identity politics 127 -- intersectionality -- 45-6 -- 56-7 -- 121-2 -- 152n.4 -- Jazz Age -- 46 -- 129 -- Johnson, Charles S. -- 19 -- 20 -- 151n.20 -- Johnson, Georgia Douglas -- 11 -- Street Salon, 73-4 -- Street Salon, 73-4 -- Street Salon, 158n.8 -- Street Salon, 158n.8 -- Johnson, James Weldon -- 22 -- 50 -- Black Manhattan, 14 -- Black Manhattan, 14 -- Black Manhattan, 98 -- Black Manhattan, 98 -- Julien, Isaac -- 124 -- 126 -- 127 -- 136 -- 141 -- Looking For Langston, 4 -- Looking For Langston, 4 -- Looking For Langston, 13 -- Looking For Langston, 13 -- Looking For Langston, 67 -- Looking For Langston, 67 -- Looking For Langston, 123-4 -- Looking For Langston, 123-4 -- Looking For Langston, 126-34 -- Looking For Langston, 126-34 -- Kawash, Samira 154n.127 -- Knopf, Marcy, The Sleeper Wakes 74 -- Larsen, Nella -- 5 -- 8 -- 11 -- 30.

44-6 -- 47 -- 48 -- 55 -- 58-60 as lesbian text -- and gender and sexuality, 53 -- and gender and sexuality, 66-9 -- and gender, 62-3 -- and spectacle, 55 -- and spectacle, 63 -- and spectacle, 64 -- and spectacle, 66-9 -- and the gaze, 58-60 -- and the gaze, 65-9 -- and visual field, 67-8 -- and visual field, 69-71 -- and voyeurism, 58-9 -- and voyeurism, 64-5 -- Passing, 52-3 -- Passing, 63-71 -- Passing, 128 -- Quicksand, 47 -- Quicksand, 52-63 -- Quicksand, 68 -- Lenox Avenue -- 32-4 -- 39 -- 138 -- Levering Lewis, David -- 6 -- 30 -- 73 -- life practices -- 12 -- 100 -- 106-7 -- 108 -- 162n.13 -- Locke, Alain -- and Survey Graphic, 10 -- and Survey Graphic, 10 -- and Survey Graphic, 20-3 -- and Survey Graphic, 20-3 -- and Survey Graphic, 148n.31 -- and Survey Graphic, 148n.31 -- and The New Negro, 3 -- and The New Negro, 10 -- and The New Negro, 14 -- and The New Negro, 19-23 -- and The New Negro, 24 -- and The New Negro, 25 -- and The New Negro, 30 -- Mapplethorpe, Robert 133 -- McCluskey Jr, John -- 31 -- 35 -- 151n.20 -- McDowell, Deborah E. -- 53 -- 98 -- McKay, Claude -- 22 -- 30 -- 47 -- 54 -- Home to Harlem, 30 -- Home to Harlem, 30 -- Home to Harlem, 47 -- Home to Harlem, 47 -- Mercer, Kobena -- 123 -- 126 -- 127 -- 134 -- 138 -- miscegenation -- 12 -- 79-83 -- 137 -- modernism -- 2-3 -- 6 -- 10 -- 11 -- 16 -- 21 -- 22 -- modernity -- 2 -- 3 -- 5 -- 15-16 -- 26 -- 30 -- 33 -- Morrison, Toni -- 1-2 -- 123 -- 126 -- 165n.34 -- Beloved, 81 -- Beloved, 82 -- Beloved, 137 -- Jazz, 1 -- Jazz, 1 -- Jazz, 13 -- Jazz, 13 -- Jazz, 33 -- Jazz, 33 -- Jazz, 123-6 -- Jazz, 123-6 -- Jazz, 134-40 -- Jazz, 134-40 -- motherhood -- 9 -- 12 -- 75-9 -- 82 -- 92-3 -- 94 -- multiculturalism -- 7 -- 13 -- Negro in Chicago, The -- 19 -- 87 -- Nelson, Alice Dunbar 73 -- New Negro Renaissance -- 10 -- 11 -- 18.

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