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Title

Beyond Douglass : new perspectives on early African-American literature / edited by Michael J. Drexler and Ed White.

Publication

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Drexler, Michael J.
• White, Ed, 1965-

Description

vii, 176 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"The starting point for "Beyond Douglass" is an institutional paralysis in the study of Early African-American literature. Over the past decade, literary anthologies have codified this tradition through the exemplary figures of Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Fredrick Douglass. Ironically, scholars have continued the valuable work of reclamation, a warrant for new approaches to slave narratives, protest literature, autobiography, poetry, and fiction. The danger, however, is that these more recently presented works will remain texts for the specialist and will neither enter nor modify the newly established canon. This book seeks to be an intervention in this premature canonization, inviting a pedagogical communication between teachers of American literature and the specialists focusing on early African-American literature. These essays explore both newly recovered texts and new scholarly approaches, and represent a powerful call to revise what we think we know about this rich vein in American letters."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Aperçus

Uniform Title

Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)

Subjects

• American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 18th century
• American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism
• American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century
• American literature > African American authors > Study and teaching
• Autobiography > African American authors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Canon Loading / Michael J. Drexler and Ed White -- Self-Encounters: Two Eighteenth-Century Memoirs from Moravian Bethlehem / Katherine Faull -- The Eighteenth-Century Black Wor(l)d and Early Writers' Biblical Literacy / April Langley -- Anglo-American Continuities of Civic and Religious Thought in the Institutional World of Early Black Writing / Phillip M. Richards -- Early African-American Literature? / Vincent Carretta -- Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Cultures of Enlightenment / Philip Gould -- Aspirant Citizenship / John Saillant -- Antebellum African-American Texts beyond Slavery and Race / Xiomara Santamarina -- Monuments and Careers: Teaching William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, and Their Contemporaries / Robert S. Levine.

ISBN

• 9780838757116 (alk. paper)
• 0838757111 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008002293
• 40016084366

OCLC

• ocn191763235
• 191763235
• SCSB-5444461

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries