African American Literature In Transition - Series page

pp ii-ii

African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865 - 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, 1850–1865

pp xiii-xxviii

Introduction

pp 1-18

Part I - Black Personhood and Citizenship in Transition

pp 19-118

Chapter 1 - Freedom’s Accounts

pp 25-47

Chapter 2 - Conduct Discourse, Slave Narratives, and Black Male Self-Fashioning on the Eve of the Civil War

pp 48-67

Chapter 3 - Picturing Black Authorship with and against Stowe’s Lens

pp 68-90

Chapter 4 - African American Periodicals and the Transition to Visual Intercourse

pp 91-118

Part II - Generic Transitions and Textual Circulation

pp 119-242

Chapter 5 - Overhearing the African American Novel, 1850–1865

pp 123-148

Chapter 6 - Black Romanticism and the Lyric as the Medium of the Conspiracy

pp 149-170

Chapter 7 - Black Newspapers, Novels, and the Racial Geographies of Transnationalism

pp 171-190

Chapter 8 - Creoles of Color, Poetry, and the Periodic Press in Union-Occupied New Orleans

pp 191-216

Chapter 9 - The Haitian and American Revolutions and Black Historical Writing at Mid-Century

pp 217-242

Part III - Black Geographies in Transition

pp 243-351

Chapter 10 - Freedom to Move

pp 247-270

Chapter 11 - Black Activism, Print Culture, and Literature in Canada, 1850–1865

pp 271-306

Chapter 12 - Antislavery Activist Networks and Transatlantic Texts

pp 307-330

Chapter 13 - Haiti as Diasporic Crossroads in Transnational African American Writing

pp 331-351

Bibliography

pp 352-383

Index

pp 384-386