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Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review)

Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review) to understand how societal, cultural, and political structures offer opportunities for freedom even as they confine. in their efforts to fashion narratives that embrace the breadth and depth of this writer's intelligence and sensibilities, both books illustrate the potential of interdisciplinary inquiry to reshape Wharton studies while speaking to concerns of today's readers--students, scholars, and teachers alike. Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance. by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. new brunswick: rutgers university press, 2007. xxi + 210 pp. $24.95 paper. reviewed by Martha Jane nadell, Brooklyn College, The City university of New York herene Sherrard-Johnson opens her provocative and intriguing book, Portraits of the New Negro Woman, with a reading of a painting by Harlem renaissance artist Archibald Motley. one of Motley's many portraits of mixedrace women in a 1928 solo exhibition, A Mulatress, drew a great deal of attention, even appearing on the front cover of the exhibition catalogue and in reviews of the show. Critics used a language of racial classification, rather than of painterly inquiry, to discuss Motley's work; they described it and other works in terms of race and primitivism, rather than as meditations on line, color, or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Legacy University of Nebraska Press

Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review)

Legacy , Volume 26 (1) – Jun 3, 2009

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to understand how societal, cultural, and political structures offer opportunities for freedom even as they confine. in their efforts to fashion narratives that embrace the breadth and depth of this writer's intelligence and sensibilities, both books illustrate the potential of interdisciplinary inquiry to reshape Wharton studies while speaking to concerns of today's readers--students, scholars, and teachers alike. Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance. by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. new brunswick: rutgers university press, 2007. xxi + 210 pp. $24.95 paper. reviewed by Martha Jane nadell, Brooklyn College, The City university of New York herene Sherrard-Johnson opens her provocative and intriguing book, Portraits of the New Negro Woman, with a reading of a painting by Harlem renaissance artist Archibald Motley. one of Motley's many portraits of mixedrace women in a 1928 solo exhibition, A Mulatress, drew a great deal of attention, even appearing on the front cover of the exhibition catalogue and in reviews of the show. Critics used a language of racial classification, rather than of painterly inquiry, to discuss Motley's work; they described it and other works in terms of race and primitivism, rather than as meditations on line, color, or

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Published: Jun 3, 2009

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