TY - BOOK AU - Hill,Lena TI - Visualizing blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition T2 - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture SN - 978-1-107-04158-5 U1 - 820.9355 23A PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - American literature--African American authors--History and criticism KW - African Americans in literature KW - African Americans in art KW - Blacks--Race identity KW - African Americans--Intellectual life N1 - Bibliogr. p. 251-264; Introduction : the trope of the picture book --; Witnessing moral authority in pre-abolition literature --; Picturing education and labor in Washington and Du Bois --; Gazing upon plastic art in the Harlem Renaissance --; Zora Neale Hurston : seeing by the rules of the natural history museum --; Melvin Tolson : gaining modernist perspective in the art gallery --; Ralph Ellison : engaging racial perception beyond museum walls --; Coda : redefining the look of american character ER -