Blinder, Caroline. 2018. Looking for Harlem: The absent Narrator in Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes' The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955). CoSMo - Comparative Studies in Modernism(13), ISSN 2281-6658 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

An examination of The Sweet Flypaper of Life from 1955, Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava’s much neglected photo-textual collaboration, this article looks at Roy Decarava’s photographic studies of Black neighborhoods in the 1940s and Langston Hughes’ accompanying text; a meandering memoir narrated solely from the perspective of an elderly African American woman. The article argues that the book positions itself in a non-man’s land – literally and at times photographically - in order to to render homage to the resilience and beauty of an African/American neighborhood in the face of economic adversity.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/3101
Keywords:	Langston Hughes, Roy DeCarava, Harlem, Photography and literature
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Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Dates:	Date Event December 2018 Published Online 2 October 2018 Accepted
Item ID:	27260
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2019 13:14
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2021 05:43
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27260

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