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edocfu_9958352431302883
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1 online resource (432 pages) :
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illustrations.
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Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812206296
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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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. Early African American Print Culture /
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chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Signifi cance of the Book /
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Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History /
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Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry /
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Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West /
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Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History /
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Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic /
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Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: Th e Life and Narrative of William Grimes /
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Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print /
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Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: Th e Practice of Citation in Clotel /
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Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Th em: African American Deployments of "Th e Charge of the Light Brigade" /
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Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar’s Daughter /
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Chapter 12. "Photographs to Answer Our Purposes": Repre sen ta tions of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture /
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Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture /
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Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles /
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Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions /
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Chapter 16. "Keep It Before the People": The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism /
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Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Per for mance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature /
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Notes --
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Contributors --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812206296
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206296
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