Abstract
Focusing on the representation of Harlem, I examine how Wallace Thurman's 1929 The Blacker the Berry explicitly challenges the notion of "the emancipatory city" while emphasizing the spatial aspect of subject formation. Thurman underscores both the city's liberating potential and its simultaneous tendency to reinforce dominant normative schemes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 59-74 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Mosaic |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Literature and Literary Theory