African American Literature in Transition, 1850-1865: Volume 4, 1850-1865 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Zackodnik, Teresa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly 'free' nation. This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understandings of both African American and American literature. It presents 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. Chapters 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108690195
• Artikelnr.: 62745184

Inhaltsangabe

Timeline; Volume 4: 1850-1865
Introduction
Teresa Zackodnik; Part 1. Black personhood and citizenship in transition: Section 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 Blackness with and against Stowe's lens
Michael A. Chaney; 4. African American periodicals and the transition to visual intercourse
Autumn Womack; Part 2. Generic transitions and textual circulation: Section introduction
Teresa Zackodnik; 5. Overhearing the African American novel
1850-1865
Hollis Robbins and 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
Ben 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 Gilroy Hall; Part 3. Black geographies in transition: Section 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; Bibliography.