Social Document Fictions: Race, Visual Culture and Science in African American Literary Culture, 1850-1939
When in 1928 Alain Locke coined the phrase "social document fiction" to describe W.E.B. DuBois' 1911 novel Quest of the Silver Fleece, he magnified a tenuous interplay between aesthetics, politics, and social science that underpins nineteenth and early twentieth century black intellec...
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| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BK19V9 |