Early African American Print Culture

✍ Scribed by Lara Langer Cohen (editor); Jordan Alexander Stein (editor)

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading.

Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction. Early African American Print Culture
PART I. Vectors of Movement
chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Signifi cance of the Book
Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History
Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry
Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West
PART II. Racialization and Identity Production
Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History
Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic
Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: Th e Life and Narrative of William Grimes
Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print
PART III. Adaptation, Citation, Deployment
Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: Th e Practice of Citation in Clotel
Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Th em: African American Deployments of “Th e Charge of the Light Brigade”
Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar’s Daughter
Chapter 12. “Photographs to Answer Our Purposes”: Repre sen ta tions of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture
Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture
PART IV. Public Performances
Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles
Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions
Chapter 16. “Keep It Before the People”: The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism
Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Per for mance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature
Notes
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments