| Series |
Material texts
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| Contents |
Introduction: Early African American print culture / Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein -- pt. 1. Vectors of movement. The print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the cultural significance of the book / Joseph Rezek ; The unfortunates: what the life spans of early Black books tell us about book history / Joanna Brooks ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the circuits of abolitionist poetry / Meredith L. McGill ; Early African American print culture and the American West / Eric Gardner -- pt. 2. Racialization and identity production. Apprehending early African American literary history / Jeannine Marie DeLombard ; Black voices, white print: racial practice, print publicity, and order in the early American republic / Corey Capers ; Slavery, imprinted: the life and narrative of William Grimes / Susanna Ashton ; Bottles of ink and reams of paper: Clotel, racialization, and the material culture of print / Jonathan Senchyne -- pt. 3. Adaptation, citation, deployment. Notes from the state of Saint Domingue: the practice of citation in Clotel / Lara Langer Cohen ; The canon in front of them: African American deployments of "The charge of the light brigade" / Daniel Hack ; Another long bridge: reproduction and reversion in Hagar's daughter / Holly Jackson ; "Photographs to answer our purposes": representations of the Liberian landscape in colonization print culture / Dalila Scruggs ; Networking Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in early African American print culture / Susan Gillman -- pt. 4. Public performances. The lyric public of Les Cenelles / Lloyd Pratt ; Imagining a state of fellow citizens: early African American politics of publicity in the Black state conventions / Derrick R. Spires ; "Keep it before the people": the pictorialization of American abolitionism / Radiclani Clytus ; John Marrant blows the French horn: print, performance, and the making of publics in early African American literature / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. |
| Abstract |
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American print culture, both on the page and off. -- Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-404) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012002920 |
| ISBN | 9780812244250 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0812244257 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780812223347 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0812223349 (paperback) |
| Standard identifier# |
40021126471 |
| Standard identifier# |
99949422515 |
