Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Historical Events, People, and Publications, 1920–1930
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Habitus, Sound, Fashion
- Chapter 1 New Negro Literary Décor
- Chapter 2 The New Negro Movement’s Recording Imaginary
- Chapter 3 Sartorial Self-Fashioning in the Harlem Renaissance
- Part II Space
- Part III Uplift Renewed
- Part IV Serial Reading
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Sartorial Self-Fashioning in the Harlem Renaissance
from Part I - Habitus, Sound, Fashion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2022
Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Historical Events, People, and Publications, 1920–1930
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Habitus, Sound, Fashion
- Chapter 1 New Negro Literary Décor
- Chapter 2 The New Negro Movement’s Recording Imaginary
- Chapter 3 Sartorial Self-Fashioning in the Harlem Renaissance
- Part II Space
- Part III Uplift Renewed
- Part IV Serial Reading
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter develops a productive comparison between James VanDerZee’s photography and James Weldon Johnson’s fiction in order to weigh up the possibilities and limitations of photographic and literary portraiture as a means of challenging, or at least complicating, dominant visual economies of race in the 1920s. Throughout, Lamm clarifies the specific ways in which literary representation facilitates a more probing exploration of African American sartorial self-fashioning, especially its more subjective, less visible dimensions.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 , pp. 73 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022