Harlem crossroads: black writers and the photograph in the twentieth century

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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Preface xvii Introduction: A Riot of Images: Harlem and the Pursuit of Modernity 1 Chapter One: Documenting Harlem: Images and Afterlives 19 Chapter Two: From Black Voices to Black Power: Richard Wright and the Trial of Documentary 61 Chapter Three: Ralph Ellison, Photographer 112 Chapter Four: Photo-Text Capital: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the Uses of Harlem 160 Chapter Five: Dodging and Burning: The Writer and the Image after the Civil Rights Era 198 Coda: Looking Back: Toni Morrison and the Return to Plato's Cave 252 Abbreviations 265 Notes 267 Bibliography 317 Index 341

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