Unexpected places : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature by Gardner, Eric instant download

Unexpected places : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature by Gardner, Eric instant download

x, 258 pages ; 24 cm, In conversation with both archival sources and contemporary scholarship, Unexpected Places calls for a large-scale rethinking of the nineteenth-century African American literary landscape. In addition to revisiting such better-known writers as William Wells Brown, Maria Stewart, and Hannah Crafts, Unexpected Places offers the first critical considerations of important figures including William Jay Greenly, Jennie Carter, Polly Wash, and Lizzie Hart. The book's discussion of physical locations leads naturally to careful study of how region is tied to genre, authorship, publication circumstances, the black press, domestic and nascent black nationalist ideologies, and black mobility in the nineteenth century. --from publisher description, Includes bibliographical references and index, Introduction: Duty and daily bread -- Gateways and borders: Black St. Louis in the 1840s and 1850s -- Frontiers and domestic centers: Black Indiana,1857-1862 -- The Black West: northern California and beyond, 1865-1877 -- Beyond Philadelphia: the reach of the Recorder, 1865-1880 -- Epilogue: (Re)locating \"Hannah Crafts.\"