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UNINA9910778415503321 |
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Autore |
Gardner Eric |
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Titolo |
Unexpected places [[electronic resource] ] : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature / / Eric Gardner |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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9786612485121 |
1-60473-284-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Collana |
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
African Americans in literature |
Place (Philosophy) in literature |
Regionalism in literature |
West (U.S.) In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Duty and daily bread -- Gateways and borders: Black St. Louis in the 1840's and 1850's -- 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". |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder , John Mifflin Brown wrote to the paper praising its editor Elisha Weaver: ""It takes our Western boys to lead off. I am. proud of your paper."". Weaver's story, though, like many of the contributions of early black literature outside of the urban Northeast, has almost vanished. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Weaver who have been left off maps draw |
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