from Part I - Habitus, Sound, Fashion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2022
This chapter develops a productive comparison between James VanDerZee’s photography and James Weldon Johnson’s fiction in order to weigh up the possibilities and limitations of photographic and literary portraiture as a means of challenging, or at least complicating, dominant visual economies of race in the 1920s. Throughout, Lamm clarifies the specific ways in which literary representation facilitates a more probing exploration of African American sartorial self-fashioning, especially its more subjective, less visible dimensions.
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