Against a sharp white background : infrastructures of African American print /

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Imprint:	Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	xi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Series:	The history of print and digital culture History of print and digital culture.
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- African American authors -- Publishing -- History. African Americans in literature. African American authors. African American periodicals. African Americans and mass media. African American authors. African American periodicals. African Americans and mass media. African Americans in literature. American literature -- African American authors. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11905817

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Other authors / contributors:	Fielder, Brigitte, editor. Senchyne, Jonathan, editor.
ISBN:	9780299321505 0299321509
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of print and digital culture can be as limiting as they are enabling. Contributors to this volume explore the relationship between expression and such frameworks, analyzing how different mediums, library catalogs, and search engines shape the production and reception of written and visual culture. Topics include antebellum literature, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement; "post-Black" art, the role of black librarians, and how present-day technologies aid or hinder the discoverability of work by African Americans. Against a Sharp White Background covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies."

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Infrastructures of African American print / Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne
Section I. Infrastructures
Slavery, black visual culture, and the promises and problems of print in the work of David Drake, Theaster Gates, and Glenn Ligon / P. Gabrielle Foreman
"The books you've waited for" : Ebony magazine, the Johnson book division, and black history in print / E. James West
Making lists, keeping time : infrastructures of black inquiry, 1900-1950 / Laura E. Helton
Parsing the special characters of African American print culture : Mary Ann Shadd and the * limits of search / Jim Casey
Section II. Paratexts
Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return and antiblackness of the book as an object / Beth A. McCoy and Jasmine Y. Montgomery
Performative paratexts : Postblackness, law, and the periodization of African American literature / Jesse A. Goldberg
Richard Wright between two fronts : Black Boy in the black metropolis / Kinohi Nishikawa
Imitation, racialization, and interpretive norms : Nella Larsen's "plagiarized" story in The Forum / Barbara Hochman
Section III. Formats
Visionary history : recovering William J. Wilson's "Afric-American Picture Gallery" / John Ernest, Rian Bowie, Leif Eckstrom, and Britt Rusert
Centering black women in the black Chicago renaissance : Katherine Williams-Irvin, Olive Diggs, and "new negro womanhood" / Aria S. Halliday
The slave narrative unbound / Michaël Roy
The walking book / Bryan Sinche.

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