African American literature in transition, 1830-1850 /

African American literature in transition, 1830-1850 /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	African American literature in transition ; volume 3
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. African Americans in literature. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American literature -- African American authors. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12596153

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Other authors / contributors:	Fagan, Benjamin, editor.
ISBN:	9781108422949 1108422942 9781108435239 1108435238 9781108386067 9781108397322
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: African American literature in transition, 1830-1850 Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781108386067

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