| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 386 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
African American literature in transition ; volume 4
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African American literature in transition ; volume 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The period of 1850-1865 consists of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly "free" nation. This volume reframes midcentury African American literature and challenges our current understandings of both African American and American literature. A fluid tradition that includes history, science, politics, economics, space and movement, the visual, and the sonic, Black writing was highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries. Essays explore how Black literature was being produced and circulated; how and why it marked its relation to other literary and expressive traditions; what geopolitical imaginaries it facilitated through representation; and what technologies, including print, enabled African Americans to pursue such a complex and ongoing aesthetic and political project"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Teresa Zackodnik -- Part I. Black Personhood and Citizenship in Transition : Introduction / Teresa Zackodnik -- 1. Freedom's Accounts : The Semi-Citizenship Narrative / Stephen Knadler -- 2. Conduct Discourse, Slave Narratives, and Black Male Self-Fashioning on the Eve of the Civil War / Erica L. Ball -- 3. Picturing Black Authorship with and against Stowe's Lens / Michael A. Chaney -- 4. African American Periodicals and the Transition to Visual Intercourse / Autumn Womack -- Part II. Generic Transitions and Textual Circulation : Introduction / Teresa Zackodnik -- 5. Overhearing the African American Novel, 1850-1865 / Hollis Robbins, Mark Sussman -- 6. Black Romanticism and the Lyric as the Medium of the Conspiracy / Matt Sandler -- 7. Black Newspapers, Novels, and the Racial Geographies of Transnationalism / Benjamin Fagan -- 8. Creoles of Color, Poetry, and the Periodic Press in Union-Occupied New Orleans / Jennifer Gipson -- 9. The Haitian and American Revolutions and Black Historical Writing at Mid-Century / Stephen G. Hall -- Part III. Black Geographies in Transition : Introduction / Teresa Zackodnik -- 10. Freedom to Move / Janaka Bowman Lewis -- 11. Black Activism, Print Culture, and Literature in Canada, 1850-1865 / Winfried Siemerling -- 12. Antislavery Activist Networks and Transatlantic Texts / Barbara McCaskill -- 13. Haiti as Diasporic Crossroads in Transnational African American Writing / Marlene L. Daut. |
| Access |
DRM-free. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Zackodnik, Teresa C., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: African American literature in transition, 1850-1865 Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781108427487 (DLC) 2020040197 |
| ISBN |
9781108647847 electronic book |
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1108647847 electronic book |
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9781108427487 hardcover |
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9781108446228 paperback |
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