03313nam 2200709Ia 450 991045523180332120200520144314.01-282-48512-197866124851211-60473-284-9(CKB)1000000000816867(EBL)515597(OCoLC)472605676(SSID)ssj0000344085(PQKBManifestationID)11304698(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344085(PQKBWorkID)10307085(PQKB)11633953(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204120(MiAaPQ)EBC515597(MdBmJHUP)muse13704(Au-PeEL)EBL515597(CaPaEBR)ebr10340782(CaONFJC)MIL248547(EXLCZ)99100000000081686720090316d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrUnexpected places[electronic resource] relocating nineteenth-century African American literature /Eric GardnerJackson University Press of Mississippi20091 online resource (269 p.)Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-60473-283-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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".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 drawMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in literaturePlace (Philosophy) in literatureRegionalism in literatureWest (U.S.)In literatureElectronic books.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.African Americans in literature.Place (Philosophy) in literature.Regionalism in literature.810.9/896073Gardner Eric880886MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455231803321Unexpected places2039229UNINA