"Wallace Thurman's "Strange and Beautiful Human Pageant
The Blacker the Berry and the Pageantry of Disability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5148052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Corey Wozniak (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 107-122 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2018.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W2806877712 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Recovering Wallace Thurman as a disabled author gives literary critics the advantage of fresh interpretive inroads to his creative work. In this essay, Thurman's 1929 novel The Blacker the Berry is reread in light of his disability. The novel is found to celebrate bodily diversity and to challenge the ableism of certain of Thurman's Harlem Renaissance contemporaries
Ableism · Art · Art history · Disability studies · Diversity (politics) · Effi · Sociology · The Renaissance · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature · Themes in Literature Analysis · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
The Disability Studies Reader
Sweetback Style
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Harlem Shadows
The Mind and Mood of Black America
Decadence, Sexuality, and the Bohemian Vision of Wallace Thurman
The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black
Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry and the Question of the Emancipatory City
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |