Title African American literature in transition, 1800-1830 / edited by Jasmine Nichole Cobb

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 348 pages) : illustrations Series African American literature in transition Contents Introduction: African American writing out of bounds, 1800-1830 -- Race, writing, and eschatological hope, 1800-1830 -- Daniel Coker, David Walker, and the politics of dialogue with whites in early nineteenth-century African American literature -- Black entrepreneurship, economic self-determination and early print in Antebellum Brooklyn -- Early African American literature and the British Empire, 1808-1835 -- Robert Roberts's The House Servant's Directory and the performance of stability in African American print, 1800-1830 -- Dream visions in early Black autobiography; or, why Frederick Douglass doesn't dream -- Reading, Black feminism, and the press around 1827 -- "Theresa" and the early transatlantic mixed-race heroine: Black solidarity in Freedom's Journal -- Redemption, the historical imagination, and early Black biographical writing -- Theorizing vision and selfhood in early Black writing and art -- Embodying activism, bearing witness: the portraits of early African American ministers in Philadelphia -- Visual insubordination within early African American portraiture and illustrated books Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2021) Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century African Americans in literature. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American literature -- African American authors Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Cobb, Jasmine Nichole, editor. LC no. 2020045818 ISBN 9781108632003 1108632009

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