Sightations in Black: Ekphrasis and the African American Ophthalmic Text

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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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Main Author:	Turner, Christopher
Format:	Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26854/

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