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Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance.

Publication: MELUS
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2007. 224 pages. $24.95 paper.

In Portraits of the New Negro Woman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson examines the representation of the mulatta figure in key literary texts of the Harlem Renaissance. As a figure that could both pass and represent the race authentically as a proper race woman, the mulatta served as a trope for the complexities of race as a visual epistemology. To study this trope, Sherrard-Johnson goes beyond examining literary representations that elicit the visual in their descriptions of mulatta figures. She instead pairs selected texts with contemporaneous examples of visual culture to engender a dialogue between them, for as she notes, "the visual reproduced racial knowledge and regimes" under which the mulatta labored as a literary figure that both embodied and contradicted these...

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