Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865
- African American Literature In Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1850–1865
- Introduction
- Part I Black Personhood and Citizenship in Transition
- Part II Generic Transitions and Textual Circulation
- Part III Black Geographies in Transition
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
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Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865
- African American Literature In Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1850–1865
- Introduction
- Part I Black Personhood and Citizenship in Transition
- Part II Generic Transitions and Textual Circulation
- Part III Black Geographies in Transition
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Contributors to this volume suggest that we read not for event but for multiple conditions productive of and for Black literature. Such a protocol of reading yields understandings closer to the complexity of an African American mid-century. Those conditions include how Black literature was being produced and circulated; how and why it marked its relation to other literary and expressive traditions; what geopolitical imaginaries it facilitated through representation, how, and why it did so; and what technologies, including but not limited to print, enabled African Americans to both represent and pursue such a complex and ongoing aesthetic and political project.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865 , pp. 1 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021