African American Literature in Transition, 1865-1880: Volume 5, 1865-1880 (eBook, ePUB)

Black Reconstructions
Redaktion: Gardner, Eric

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies materials that many literary historians leave out of narratives of American culture. But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, 1865-1880 also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such recovery inherently challenges methods dominant in American literary study. At the book's core is the recognition that many period texts - by writers from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward - are not only aesthetically striking but also central to understanding key socio-historical and cultural trends in the nineteenth century. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped in three sections - 'Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities', 'Persons and Bodies', and 'Memories, Materialities, and Locations' - and focus on debates over race, nation, personhood, and print that were central to Reconstruction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108671521
• Artikelnr.: 62745622

Inhaltsangabe

Black Reconstructions: Introduction Eric Gardner; Part I. Citizenships,
Textualities, and Domesticities: 1. Sketching Black Citizenship on
Installment after the 15th Amendment Derrick R. Spires; 2. Stories of
Citizenship: The Rise of Narrative Black Poetry During Reconstruction
Stephanie Farrar; 3. National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of
Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History Rynetta
Davis; 4. Reconstructing the Rhetoric of AME Ministry Eric Gardner; Part
II. Persons and Bodies: 5. Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance: Textual
Politics in the Post-War Era Kathy L. Glass; 6. Post-Civil War Black
Childhoods Nazera Sadiq Wright; 7. Disabling Freedom: Bloody Shirt Rhetoric
in Postbellum Slave Narratives Keith Michael Green; 8. Radical
Respectability and African American Women's Reconstruction Fiction Brigitte
Fielder; Part III. Memories, Materialities, and Locations: 9. The Civil War
in African American Memory Cody Marrs; 10. African American Literature of
the West and the Landscape of Opportunity Janet Neary; 11. Reconstructions
of the South in African American Literature Sherita L. Johnson; 12. 'This
Is Especially Our Crop': Blackness, Value, and the Reconstruction of Cotton
Katherine Adams.