{"product_id":"early-african-american-print-culture-paperback-softback-9780812223347","title":"Early African American Print Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812223347","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEarly African American Print Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLara Langer Cohen (Edited by), Jordan Alexander Stein (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812223347\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 December 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e432 pages, 43 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.676 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"-\u003ci\u003eAfrican American Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Illustrated by engrossing and, at times, disconcerting visual images, [the book] productively brings together the work of established critical figures.\"-\u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEarly African American Print Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Early African American Print Culture\u003cbr\u003e -Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I. VECTORS OF MOVEMENT\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Significance of the Book\u003cbr\u003e -Joseph Rezek\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History\u003cbr\u003e -Joanna Brooks\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry\u003cbr\u003e -Meredith L. McGill\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West\u003cbr\u003e -Eric Gardner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II. RACIALIZATION AND IDENTITY PRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History\u003cbr\u003e -Jeannine Marie DeLombard\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic\u003cbr\u003e -Corey Capers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: The Life and Narrative of William Grimes\u003cbr\u003e -Susanna Ashton\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: \u003ci\u003eClotel\u003c\/i\u003e, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print\u003cbr\u003e -Jonathan Senchyne\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART III. ADAPTATION, CITATION, DEPLOYMENT\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: The Practice of Citation in \u003ci\u003eClotel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Lara Langer Cohen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Them: African American Deployments of \"The Charge of the Light Brigade\"\u003cbr\u003e -Daniel Hack\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in \u003ci\u003eHagar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Holly Jackson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. \"Photographs to Answer Our Purposes\": Representations of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture\u003cbr\u003e -Dalila Scruggs\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture\u003cbr\u003e -Susan Gillman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART IV. PUBLIC PERFORMANCES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of \u003ci\u003eLes Cenelles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Lloyd Pratt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions\u003cbr\u003e -Derrick R. Spires\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16. \"Keep It Before the People\": The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism\u003cbr\u003e -Radiclani Clytus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Performance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature\u003cbr\u003e -Elizabeth Maddock Dillon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555690705176,"sku":"9780812223347","price":28.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/early-african-american-print-culture-paperback-softback-9780812223347","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}