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    Early African American Print Culture

    Lara Langer Cohen (Edited by), Jordan Alexander Stein (Edited by)

    9780812223347

    Paperback / softback, published 2 December 2014

    432 pages, 43 illus.
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.676 kg

    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013

    "A must-read for scholars of African American literature and those who study the development of print culture in the early American republic. . . . The book's seventeen chapters admirably illuminate the multifaceted ways African Americans engaged with the world of print between the mid-eighteenth and the early twentieth centuries."-Journal of American History

    "Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein have fashioned seventeen well-conceived and -executed works into an anthology that advances our understanding of how early African American literature fits into the historical landscape of communication arts."-African American Review

    "Illustrated by engrossing and, at times, disconcerting visual images, [the book] productively brings together the work of established critical figures."-Modern Language Review

    "Early African American Print Culture reads like a manifesto, a call to action-sometimes directly, by cataloging the work that remains to be done, and sometimes simply by offering models of scholarship on familiar and unfamiliar authors and texts. The central point, of course, is that we need to attend to the whole of American print culture if we are to understand the complexities of African American writing throughout the nineteenth century."-John Ernest, West Virginia University

    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American print culture, both on the page and off.

    The book's chapters consider domestic novels and gallows narratives, Francophone poetry and engravings of Liberia, transatlantic lyrics and San Francisco newspapers. Together, they consider how close attention to the archive can expand the study of African American literature well beyond matters of authorship to include issues of editing, illustration, circulation, and reading-and how this expansion can enrich and transform the study of print culture more generally.

    Introduction: Early African American Print Culture
    -Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein

    PART I. VECTORS OF MOVEMENT
    Chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Significance of the Book
    -Joseph Rezek
    Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History
    -Joanna Brooks
    Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry
    -Meredith L. McGill
    Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West
    -Eric Gardner

    PART II. RACIALIZATION AND IDENTITY PRODUCTION
    Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History
    -Jeannine Marie DeLombard
    Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic
    -Corey Capers
    Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: The Life and Narrative of William Grimes
    -Susanna Ashton
    Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print
    -Jonathan Senchyne

    PART III. ADAPTATION, CITATION, DEPLOYMENT
    Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: The Practice of Citation in Clotel
    -Lara Langer Cohen
    Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Them: African American Deployments of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
    -Daniel Hack
    Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar's Daughter
    -Holly Jackson
    Chapter 12. "Photographs to Answer Our Purposes": Representations of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture
    -Dalila Scruggs
    Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture
    -Susan Gillman

    PART IV. PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
    Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles
    -Lloyd Pratt
    Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions
    -Derrick R. Spires
    Chapter 16. "Keep It Before the People": The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism
    -Radiclani Clytus
    Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Performance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature
    -Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

    Notes
    List of Contributors
    Index
    Acknowledgments
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