African American literature in transition, 1830-1850 edited by Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fagan, Benjamin, editor.

Series:

African American literature in transition [volume 3]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

American literature--African American authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2021

Summary:

"This volume charts the ways in which African American literature fosters transitions between material cultures and contexts from 1830 to 1850, and showcases work that explores how African American literature and lived experiences shaped one another. Chapters focus on the interplay between pivotal political and social events including emancipation in the West Indies, the Irish Famine, and the Fugitive Slave Act and key African American cultural productions such as the poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the writings of David Walker, and the genre of the Slave Narrative. Chapters also examine the relationship between African American literature and a variety of institutions including literary societies, the press, and the post office. The chapters are grouped together in three sections, each of which is focused on transitions within a particular geographic scale: the local, the national, and the transnational. Taken together, they offer a crucial account of how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of the 1830s, 1840s, and beyond"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction. The age of David Walker / Benjamin Fagan

Part I. Local Transitions. Antebellum literary societies, polite learning, and traditions of modernity / Carla L. Peterson ; 'By a Young Lady of Color' : Black women and the antislavery press / Jasmine Nichole Cobb ; The poetics of education in antebellum New Orleans / Juliane Braun ; Gentility, resistance, and the Nat turner's rebellion in early African American poetry / Faith Barrett

Part II. National Transitions. Copyright, fugitivity, and the fight for self-ownership in early African American literature / Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell ; The communications revolution and the networked path to freedom / Nihad M. Farooq ; The fugitive slave act and the United States of slavery / Susanna Ashton

Part III. Transnational Transitions. Cosmopolitanism, character, and the theories of early African American literature / Hannah Spahn ; Race, slavery, and emigration in black women's life writing / Pia Wiegmink ; The impact of West Indian emancipation on African American poetry / Nicole N. Aljoe ; La Escalera, sentiment, and revolution in the antebellum novel / David Luis-Brown ; Europe, Mexico, and the African American 1848 / John Levi Barnard ; The Irish famine and the lessons of environmental history / Ian Finseth

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2021)

Other Format:

Print version African American literature in transition, 1830-1850

ISBN:

9781108386067

1108386067

9781108397322

1108397328

OCLC:

1200037241

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license