Sightations in Black: Ekphrasis and the African American Ophthalmic Text
This study investigates the role of ekphrasis—the verbal representation of visual representation—in the writing of Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker with an emphasis on photography and argues for a tradition of this aesthetic in what I term the African American...
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| Format: | Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26854/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26854/1/Sightations_in_Black_final.pdf |