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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Wallace Thurman"”.
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
… place of Black Bohemia, was the residence of Wallace Thurman. Thurman, a black writer, became a central figure of the renaissance movement largely because of his life and his works which reveal his sense of isolation, alienation, and disillusionment. This project is an attempt to provide an …
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The Space Between “Seen” and “Unseen:” Queer People and the 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance
… edition of <em>Fire!!</em>, edited by novelist Wallace Thurman. <em>Fire!!</em> was created by a younger generation of New Negroes and “devoted to the younger Negro artists” who dissented from the mainstream ideas of the New Negro Movement and used the magazine to spread their own views on the …
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
… issues and social debates through their works. Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston used their own fictional works to explore the New Negro construct being promoted. In examining the constructed nature of this New Negro identity, these artists strove to destabilize the social …
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Incognitos: Modern Slumming Narratives and the Unmaking of Sexual Identity
… and Willa Cather, Afro-Modernist bohemians like Wallace Thurman and Richard Bruce Nugent, and transatlantic Anglo-American Modernists such as Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes renovate a genre traditionally dedicated to sexual surveillance and categorization. Together these writers question the …
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
… Upton Sinclair, Djuna Barnes, Fannie Hurst, and Wallace Thurman fascinated with American difference, and the American System’s attempts to standardize it, I unveil a literary tradition outside the norms of the U.S. crusade against waste, and outside the standard modernist canon. In order to …
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"Neurotic Nationalism: The ""American Disease"" in American Modernist Literature"
… Harlem Renaissance novels by Jessie Fauset and Wallace Thurman, and African-American epics like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. By examining these texts alongside the medical documents, psychoanalytic tracts, and eugenicist diatribes that shaped and were shaped by them, this dissertation shows …