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African American Literature in Transition, 1800–1830

Volume 2. 1800–1830

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Part of African American Literature in Transition

Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Maurice Wallace, William L. Andrews, Prithi Kanakamedala, Joseph Rezek, Britt Rusert, Bryan Sinche, Teresa Zackodnik, Brigitte Fielder, Stefan Wheelock, Sarah Blackwood, Aston Gonzalez, Martha J. Cutter
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  • Date Published: July 2021
  • availability: In stock
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108429078

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  • African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. Transformations included increased numbers of Black organizations, shifts in the physical mobility of Black peoples, expanded circulation of abolitionist and Black newsprint as well as greater production of Black authored texts and images. The perpetuation of slavery in the early American republic meant that many people of African descent conveyed experiences of bondage or promoted abolition in complex ways, relying on a diverse array of print and illustrative forms. Accordingly, this volume takes a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830, exploring Black organizational life before 1830, movement and mobility in African American literature, and print culture in circulation, illustration, and the narrative form.

    • Employs a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830
    • Explores African American literature produced in the face of suppression
    • Addresses the unique restraints on African American writing and expressivity at the beginning of the nineteenth century
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    '… AALT is a welcome addition to the bookshelves of scholars of nineteenth-century African American literature specifically, or for scholars of nineteenth-century American literature generally; it will also be of great interest to scholars who specialize in histories of organizational, print, and visual culture of the period.' Dana Murphy, Early American Literature

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    • Date Published: July 2021
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108429078
    • length: 366 pages
    • dimensions: 234 x 158 x 25 mm
    • weight: 0.67kg
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction Jasmine Nichole Cobb
    Part I. Black Organizational Life before 1830:
    1. Race, writing, and eschatological hope, 1800-1830 Maurice Wallace
    2. Daniel Coker, David Walker, and the politics of dialogue with whites in early nineteenth-century African American literature William L. Andrews
    3. Black entrepreneurship, economic self-determination and early print in Antebellum Brooklyn Prithi Kanakamedala
    Part II. Movement and Mobility in African American Literature:
    4. Early African American literature and the British Empire, 1808-1835 Joseph Rezek
    5. Robert Roberts's The House Servant's Directory and the Performance of Stability in African American Print, 1800–1830 Britt Rusert
    6. Dream visions in early Black autobiography
    or, why Frederick Douglass doesn't dream Bryan Sinche
    Part III. Print Culture in Circulation:
    7. Reading, Black feminism, and the press around 1827 Teresa Zackodnik
    8. Theresa and the early transatlantic mixed-race heroine: Black solidarity in Freedom's Journal Brigitte Fielder
    9. Redemption, the historical imagination, and early Black biographical writing Stefan Wheelock
    Part IV. Illustration and the Narrative Form:
    10. Theorizing vision and selfhood in early Black writing and art Sarah Blackwood
    11. Embodying activism, bearing witness: the portraits of early African American ministers in Philadelphia Aston Gonzalez
    12. Visual insubordination within early African American portraiture and illustrated books Martha J. Cutter.

  • Editor

    Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Duke University, North Carolina
    Jasmine Nichole Cobb is the Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (2015). She teaches courses on black visual culture and representation. Cobb earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a recipient of the American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

    Contributors

    Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Maurice Wallace, William L. Andrews, Prithi Kanakamedala, Joseph Rezek, Britt Rusert, Bryan Sinche, Teresa Zackodnik, Brigitte Fielder, Stefan Wheelock, Sarah Blackwood, Aston Gonzalez, Martha J. Cutter

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