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Early African American Print Culture
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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.
The book's chapters consider domestic novels and gallows narratives, Francophone poetry and engravings of Liberia, transatlantic lyrics and San Francisco newspapers. Together, they consider how close attention to the archive can expand the study of African American literature well beyond matters of authorship to include issues of editing, illustration, circulation, and reading—and how this expansion can enrich and transform the study of print culture more generally.
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Lara Langer Cohen teaches English at Swarthmore College and is author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Jordan Alexander Stein teaches English at Fordham University.
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"Early African American Print Culture reads like a manifesto, a call to action-sometimes directly, by cataloging the work that remains to be done, and sometimes simply by offering models of scholarship on familiar and unfamiliar authors and texts. The central point, of course, is that we need to attend to the whole of American print culture if we are to understand the complexities of African American writing throughout the nineteenth century."
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"Illustrated by engrossing and, at times, disconcerting visual images, [the book] productively brings together the work of established critical figures."
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"Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein have fashioned seventeen well-conceived and -executed works into an anthology that advances our understanding of how early African American literature fits into the historical landscape of communication arts."
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"A must-read for scholars of African American literature and those who study the development of print culture in the early American republic. . . . The book's seventeen chapters admirably illuminate the multifaceted ways African Americans engaged with the world of print between the mid-eighteenth and the early twentieth centuries."
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Contents
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Introduction. Early African American Print Culture
1 - PART I. Vectors of Movement
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chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Signifi cance of the Book
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Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History
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Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry
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Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West
75 - PART II. Racialization and Identity Production
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Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History
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Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic
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Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: Th e Life and Narrative of William Grimes
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Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print
140 - PART III. Adaptation, Citation, Deployment
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Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: Th e Practice of Citation in Clotel
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Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Th em: African American Deployments of “Th e Charge of the Light Brigade”
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Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar’s Daughter
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Chapter 12. “Photographs to Answer Our Purposes”: Repre sen ta tions of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture
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Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture
231 - PART IV. Public Performances
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Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles
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Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions
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Chapter 16. “Keep It Before the People”: The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism
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Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Per for mance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature
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Notes
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Contributors
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Index
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Acknowledgments
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Keywords for this book
African American literature; literary history; identity; print; eighteenth nineteenth century; essay; anthology; Phillis Wheatley; Ignatius Sancho; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; race racism; slavery; publicity; William Grimes; St Domingo; Clotel; Liberia; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Charge of the Light Brigade; Hagar's Daughter; Les Cennelles; Coventions; Abolition
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
