African American literature in transition, 1865-1880 : black reconstructions /

African American literature in transition, 1865-1880 : black reconstructions /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Description:	xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	African American literature in transition ; 5
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. African Americans in literature. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American literature -- African American authors. Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12595067

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Other authors / contributors:	Gardner, Eric, editor.
ISBN:	9781108427470 1108427472 9781108446211 1108446213 9781108551724 9781108558679 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies materials that many literary historians leave out of narratives of American culture. But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, 1865-1880 also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such recovery inherently challenges methods dominant in American literary study. At the book's core is the recognition that many period texts-by writers from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward-are not only aesthetically striking but also central to understanding key socio-historical and cultural trends in the nineteenth century. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped in three sections-"Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities," "Persons and Bodies," and "Memories, Materialities, and Locations"-and focus on debates over race, nation, personhood, and print that were central to Reconstruction"--
Other form:	Online version: African American literature in transition, 1865-1880 Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781108551724

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Summary:	This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies materials that many literary historians leave out of narratives of American culture. But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, 1865-1880 also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such recovery inherently challenges methods dominant in American literary study. At the book's core is the recognition that many period texts - by writers from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward - are not only aesthetically striking but also central to understanding key socio-historical and cultural trends in the nineteenth century. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped in three sections - 'Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities', 'Persons and Bodies', and 'Memories, Materialities, and Locations' - and focus on debates over race, nation, personhood, and print that were central to Reconstruction.
Physical Description:	xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781108427470 1108427472 9781108446211 1108446213 9781108551724 9781108558679