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While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included a few elements of racial egalitarianism. Writing in the 1930s, George S. Schuyler revised Burroughs' normative SF triangle of white author, white audience, and white protagonist and promoted an individualistic, highly variable concept of race instead. While both Burroughs and Schuyler wrote SF focusing on racial identity, the largely separate genres of science fiction and African American literature prevented the similarities between the two authors from being adequately acknowledged and explored. Beginning in the 1960s, Samuel R. Delany more fully joined SF and African American literature. Delany expands on Schuyler's racial constructionist approach to identity, including gender and sexuality in addition to race. Critically intertwining the genres of SF and African American literature allows a critique of the racism in the science fiction and a more accurate and positive portrayal of the scientific connections in the African American literature. Connecting the popular fiction of Burroughs, the controversial career of Schuyler, and the postmodern texts of Delany illuminates a gradual change from a stable, essentialist construction of racial identity at the turn of the century to the variable, social construction of poststructuralist subjectivity today.

Science fiction, American --- Race in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Burroughs, Edgar Rice, --- Schuyler, George S. --- Delany, Samuel R. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Schuyler, George Samuel, --- Berrouz, Edhar, --- ביראוס, אדגר רייס, --- バローズ, E. R., --- Берроуз, Едгар, --- Bërrouz, Ėdgar, --- Бёрроуз, Эдгар, --- edgar --- rice --- burroughs --- genre --- schuylers --- black --- community --- farnhams --- freehold --- star

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Fiction --- American literature --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- American fiction --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- -American literature --- -History and criticism --- -African American authors --- -Afro-Americans in literature --- African Americans --- African American intellectuals --- Intellectual life --- African American authors&delete& --- Baldwin, James --- Criticism and interpretation --- Bambara, Toni Cade --- Brown, William Wells --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Cullen, Countee --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Dunbar, Paul Laurence --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Griggs, Sutton Elbert --- Himes, Chester --- Hughes, Langston --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Kelley, William --- Killens, John Oliver --- McKay, Claude --- Major, Clarence --- Morrison, Toni --- Petry, Ann Lane --- Reed, Ishmael --- Schuyler, George Samuel --- Toomer, Jean --- Walker, Alice --- Wright, Richard --- Music [Black ] --- Walker, Alice, 1944 --- -Criticism and interpretation

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Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine existing stereotypes. Miriam Thaggert identifies and analyzes an early form of black American modernism characterized by a heightened level of experimentation with visual and verbal techniques for narrating and representing blackness. The work of the writers and artists under discussion reflects the creative tension between the intangibility of some forms of black expression, such as spirituals, and the materiality of the body evoked by other representations of blackness, such as “Negro” dialect. By paying special attention to the contributions of photographers and other visual artists who have not been discussed in previous accounts of black modernism, Thaggert expands the scope of our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and contributes to a growing recognition of the importance of visual culture as a distinct element within, and not separate from, black literary studies. Thaggert trains her critical eye on the work of James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, Carl Van Vechten, James Van Der Zee, and Aaron Siskind—artists who experimented with narrative and photographic techniques in order to alter the perception of black images and to question and reshape how one reads and sees the black body. Examining some of the more problematic authors and artists of black modernism, she challenges entrenched assumptions about black literary and visual representations of the early to mid twentieth century. Thaggert concludes her study with a close look at the ways in which Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance were reimagined and memorialized in two notable texts—Wallace Thurman’s 1932 satire Infants of the Spring and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s controversial 1969 exhibition “Harlem on My Mind: The Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–1968.”

African Americans in art --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americains dans l'art --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de kunst --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Art dans la littérature --- Art in literature --- Black Americans in literature --- Harlem Renaissance --- Kunst in de literatuur --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Perception visuelle dans la littérature --- Visual perception in literature --- Visuele waarneming in de literatuur --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- American literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- African American art --- 20th century --- African Americans --- Intellectual life --- Modernism (Literature) --- United States --- Johnson, James Weldon --- Criticism and interpretation --- Larsen, Nella --- Schuyler, George Samuel --- Van Vechten, Carl --- Siskind, Aaron --- Littérature américaine --- Noirs américains --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Dans l'art --- Vie intellectuelle --- 20e siècle

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"Explores the challenges of subjective passing narratives written during the height of literary realism. Discusses racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity by comparing African-American narratives of James Johnson, Nella Larson, and George Schuyler and "white" ethnic (Jewish-American and Italian-American) narratives by Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, and Guido d'Agostino"--Provided by publisher.

American prose literature --- Minorities --- African Americans --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Human skin color in literature. --- Race awareness in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Autobiography. --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- American literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Technique --- United States --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Realism in literature --- Race in literature --- Human skin color --- In literature --- Race awareness in literature --- Group identity in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Howells, William Dean --- Criticism and interpretation --- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins --- Cahan, Abraham --- Lewisohn, Ludwig --- Ornitz, Samuel --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Johnson, James Weldon --- Schuyler, George Samuel --- Antin, Mary --- Yezierska, Anzia --- Barolini, Helen --- White, Walter Francis --- Fauset, Jessie Redmon --- Larsen, Nella --- Cautela, Giuseppe --- D'Agostino, Guido --- Ets, Marie Hall