Elizabeth McHenry

To Make Negro Literature

Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century, revising concepts of Black authorship and offering a fresh account of the development of â Negro literatureâ focused on the never published, the barely read, and the unconventional.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014515
• ISBN-10: 1478014512
• Artikelnr.: 60907151

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth McHenry is Professor of English at New York University and author of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. To Make Negro Literature  1
1. "The Information Contained in This Book Will Never Appear in School
Histories": Progress of a Race and Subscription Bookselling at the End of
the Nineteenth Century  23
2. Thinking Bibliographically  78
3. Washington's Good Fortune: Writing and Authorship in Practice  129
4. The Case of Mary Church Terrell  188
Coda. Underground Railroads of Meaning  235
Notes  239
Bibliography  269
Index  285