LEADER 03313nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910455231803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-48512-1 010 $a9786612485121 010 $a1-60473-284-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000816867 035 $a(EBL)515597 035 $a(OCoLC)472605676 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344085 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11304698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344085 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10307085 035 $a(PQKB)11633953 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204120 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515597 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13704 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515597 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10340782 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL248547 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000816867 100 $a20090316d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnexpected places$b[electronic resource] $erelocating nineteenth-century African American literature /$fEric Gardner 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 1 $aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60473-283-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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". 330 $aIn January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder , John Mifflin Brown wrote to the paper praising its editor Elisha Weaver: ""It takes our Western boys to lead off. I am. proud of your paper."". Weaver's story, though, like many of the contributions of early black literature outside of the urban Northeast, has almost vanished. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Weaver who have been left off maps draw 410 0$aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aRegionalism in literature 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aRegionalism in literature. 676 $a810.9/896073 700 $aGardner$b Eric$0880886 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455231803321 996 $aUnexpected places$92039229 997 $aUNINA