Early African American Print Culture

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2012

Early African American Print Culture

Edited by: Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein

In the series Material Texts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206296

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About this book

Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"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."—African American Review

"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."—John Ernest, West Virginia University

"Illustrated by engrossing and, at times, disconcerting visual images, [the book] productively brings together the work of established critical figures."—Modern Language Review

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013

"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."—Journal of American History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction. Early African American Print Culture Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Vectors of Movement
chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Signifi cance of the Book Joseph Rezek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History Joanna Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry Meredith L. Mcgill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West Eric Gardner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
PART II. Racialization and Identity Production
Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History Jeannine Marie Delombard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic Corey Capers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: Th e Life and Narrative of William Grimes Susanna Ashton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print Jonathan Senchyne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
PART III. Adaptation, Citation, Deployment
Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: Th e Practice of Citation in Clotel Lara Langer Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Th em: African American Deployments of “Th e Charge of the Light Brigade” Daniel Hack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar’s Daughter Holly Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Chapter 12. “Photographs to Answer Our Purposes”: Repre sen ta tions of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture Dalila Scruggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture Susan Gillman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
PART IV. Public Performances
Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles Lloyd Pratt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions Derrick R. Spires Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Chapter 16. “Keep It Before the People”: The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism Radiclani Clytus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Per for mance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 432
Illustrations
- Other: 43 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies; African-American Studies; African Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; American Studies

eBook

Published: September 6, 2012
ISBN: 9780812206296