Research Catalog

Title

African American literature in transition, 1865-1880 : black reconstructions / edited by Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State University.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gardner, Eric

Description

xv, 315 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

African American literature in transition ; 5

Subject

• 1800-1899
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• African American authors > Social conditions > 19th century
• African American authors > Politics and government > 19th century
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century
• African Americans in literature > 19th century
• 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

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Black reconstructions : Introduction / Eric Gardner -- Part I. Citizenships, textualities, and domesticities. Sketching Black citizenship on installment after the 15th Amendment / Derrick R. Spires -- Stories of citizenship : the rise of narrative Black poetry during Reconstruction / Stephanie Farrar -- National housekeeping : (re)dressing the politics of whiteness in nineteenth-century African American literary history / Rynetta Davis -- Reconstructing the rhetoric of AME ministry / Eric Gardner -- Part II. Persons and bodies -- Black reform, writing, and resistance : textual politics in the post-war era / Kathy L. Glass -- Post-Civil War Black childhoods / Nazera Sadiq Wright -- Disabling freedom : bloody shirt rhetoric in postbellum slave narratives / Keith Michael Green -- Radical respectability and African American women's reconstruction fiction / Brigitte Fielder -- Part III. Memories, materialities, and locations. The Civil War in African American memory / Cody Marrs -- African American literature of the West and the landscape of opportunity / Janet Neary -- Reconstructions of the South in African American literature / Sherita L. Johnson -- 'This is especially our crop' : Blackness, value, and the reconstruction of cotton / Katherine Adams.

Call Number

Sc E 22-110

ISBN

• 9781108427470
• 1108427472
• 9781108446211
• 1108446213

LCCN

2020039483

OCLC

1202730316

Title

African American literature in transition, 1865-1880 : black reconstructions / edited by Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State University.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African American literature in transition ; 5

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Gardner, Eric, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-110