African American Literature in Transition - Series page

pp ii-ii

African American Literature in Transition, 1800–1830 - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Chronology

pp xiii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Black Organizational Life before 1830

pp 15-90

Chapter 1 - Race, Writing, and Eschatological Hope, 1800–1830

pp 19-43

Chapter 2 - Daniel Coker, David Walker, and the Politics of Dialogue with Whites in Early Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

pp 44-70

Chapter 3 - Black Entrepreneurship, Economic Self-Determination and Early Print in Antebellum Brooklyn

pp 71-90

Part II - Movement and Mobility in African American Literature

pp 91-166

Chapter 4 - Early African American Literature and the British Empire, 1808–1835

pp 95-118

Chapter 5 - Robert Roberts’s The House Servant’s Directory and the Performance of Stability in African American Print, 1800–1830

pp 119-145

Chapter 6 - Dream Visions in Early Black Autobiography; Or, Why Frederick Douglass Doesn’t Dream

pp 146-166

Part III - Print Culture in Circulation

pp 167-254

Chapter 7 - Reading, Black Feminism, and the Press around 1827

pp 171-201

Chapter 8 - “Theresa” and the Early Transatlantic Mixed-Race Heroine

pp 202-226

Chapter 9 - Redemption, the Historical Imagination, and Early Black Biographical Writing

pp 227-254

Part IV - Illustration and the Narrative Form

pp 255-343

Chapter 10 - Theorizing Vision and Selfhood in Early Black Writing and Art

pp 259-287

Chapter 11 - Embodying Activism, Bearing Witness

pp 288-315

Chapter 12 - Visual Insubordination within Early African American Portraiture and Illustrated Books

pp 316-343

Index

pp 344-348