Unexpected places : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature / Eric Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Eric.

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

African Americans in literature.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Regionalism in literature.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gardner recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Elisha Weaver who have been left off maps drawn by historians and literary critics. Individual chapters restore to consideration black literary locations in antebellum St. Louis, antebellum Indiana, Reconstruction-era San Francisco, and several sites tied to the Philadelphia-based 'Recorder' during and after the Civil War. In conversation with both archival sources and contemporary scholarship, it calls for a large-scale rethinking of the nineteenth-century African American literary landscape.

Contents:

Introduction: Duty and daily bread

Gateways and borders: Black St. Louis in the 1840's and 1850's

Frontiers and domestic centers: Black Indiana,1857-1862

The Black West: northern California and beyond, 1865-1877

Beyond Philadelphia: the reach of the Recorder, 1865-1880

Epilogue: (Re)locating "Hannah Crafts".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612485121

1-60473-284-9

OCLC:

472605676