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"Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

Creator:

Barkley, Charles K.

Abstract:

This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...

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Masters Thesis

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: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem
In and Out of Touch : Fabricated Histories in Nella Larsen's Passing and James VanDerZee's Studio Portraiture

Creator:

Trowbridge, A. Hayley

Abstract:

Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the most canonical figures of Harlem Renaissance studies, whose respective novels and portraits have been explored extensively, if separately, by scholars. Both Larsen's 1929 novel Passing and VanDerZee's studio portraiture of the 1920s and 1930s have been read in terms...

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Masters Thesis

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: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the