
Black Print Unbound
The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
Eric Gardner(Autor*in)
Oxford University Press Inc
Erschienen am 24. September 2015
Buch
Hardcover
346 Seiten
978-0-19-023708-0 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the official African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper (a periodical of national reach and scope among free African Americans), Black Print Unbound is thus at once a massive recovery effort of a publication by African Americans for African Americans, a consideration of the nexus of African Americanist inquiry and print culture studies, and an intervention in the study of literatures of the Civil War, faith communities, and periodicals. The book pairs a longitudinal sense of the Recorder's ideological, political, and aesthetic development with the fullest account available of how the physical paper moved from composition to real, traceable subscribers. It builds from this cultural and material history to recover and analyze diverse and often unknown texts published in the Recorder including letters, poems, and a serialized novel-texts that were crucial to the development of African American literature and culture and that challenge our senses of genre, authorship, and community. In this, Black Print Unbound offers a case study for understanding how African Americans inserted themselves in an often-hostile American print culture in the midst of the most complex conflict the young nation had yet seen, and it thus calls for a significant rewriting of our senses of African American-and so American-literary history.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
With Black Print Unbound, Eric Gardner has significantly advanced the study of African American culture and history while at the same time giving a master class in working across the various methods of inquiry and styles of research gathered under the big tent of print culture studies ... Black Print Unbound uses bibliography, biography, history, and literary criticism to deliver a field defining and field expanding work. * Jonathan Senchyne, SHARP News * [offers] magisterial vision and imaginative force that will set new standards for periodical scholarship. * The Research Society for American Periodicals *Weitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
23 halftones
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
681 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-023708-0 (9780190237080)
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The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
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The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
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Eric Gardner is Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 ; White Houses and Black Print ; Part I: ; "Our Church Organ": Toward a Cultural and Material History of the Early Recorder ; Chapter 2 ; "Dense Darkness": Recovering the Recorder's History ; Chapter 3 ; From Pine Street to the Nation (and Back Again): The Business of the Recorder ; Chapter 4 ; "Their Friends at Home with Papers": Recorder Subscription and Subscribers ; Part II: ; "Would not such a narration be worth reading?": The Christian Recorder and African American Literary History ; Chapter 5 ; "We are in the world": Reading the Recorder in the Civil War Era ; Chapter 6 ; "So Let Us Hear from All the Brethren": The Christian Recorder and Correspondence ; Chapter 7 ; "That Wished Home of Peace": The Personal and the Political in Christian Recorder Elegies ; Chapter 8 ; Black (Women's) Fortunes and The Curse of Caste ; Works Cited ; Index