LEADER 04665oam 22005534a 450 001 9910793565303321 005 20230807175053.0 010 $a1-62190-203-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000007816973 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5741476 035 $a(OCoLC)1102638910 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47040 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007816973 100 $a20151019d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBefore Harlem$eAn Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century /$fAjuan Maria Mance 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aKnoxville :$cUniversity of Tennessee Press,$d2016. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2020 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xlviii, 704 pages) 311 $a1-62190-202-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"This anthology presents underappreciated works by African Americans active throughout the nineteenth century. Readers will find familiar names in this anthology, such as Douglass, Wells Brown, Jacobs, and Du Bois, but readers will also be introduced to lesser known and even unknown African Americans worthy of discussion, such as Solomon G. Brown, H. Cordelia Ray, and T. Thomas Fortune. Mance's intention for this volume is to offer an alternative to the Norton and Houghton Mifflin anthologies that emphasize only the canonical works of African American literature in the 19th century and to introduce students--and even professors--to a variety of writings, from poetry to journalism, by African Americans who have yet to receive their due"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Despite important recovery and authentication efforts during the last twenty-five years, the vast majority of nineteenth-century African American writers and their work remain unknown to today's readers. Moreover, the most widely used anthologies of black writing have established a canon based largely on current interests and priorities. Seeking to establish a broader perspective, this collection brings together a wealth of autobiographical writings, fiction, poetry, speeches, sermons, essays, and journalism that better portrays the intellectual and cultural debates, social and political struggles, and community publications and institutions that nurtured black writers from the early 1800s to the eve of the Harlem Renaissance. As editor Ajuan Mance notes, previous collections have focused mainly on writing that found a significant audience among white readers. Consequently, authors whose work appeared in African American-owned publications for a primarily black audience--such as Solomon G. Brown, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, and T. Thomas Fortune--have faded from memory. Even figures as celebrated as Frederick Douglass and Paul Laurence Dunbar are today much better known for their "cross-racial" writings than for the larger bodies of work they produced for a mostly African American readership. There has also been a tendency in modern canon making, especially in the genre of autobiography, to stress antebellum writing rather than writings produced after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Similarly, religious writings--despite the centrality of the church in the everyday lives of black readers and the interconnectedness of black spiritual and intellectual life--have not received the emphasis they deserve. Filling those critical gaps with a selection of 143 works by 65 writers, Before Harlem presents as never before an in-depth picture of the literary, aesthetic, and intellectual landscape of nineteenth-century African America and will be a valuable resource for a new generation of readers. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Reference$2bisacsh 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American$2bisacsh 606 $aAfrican Americans$vLiterary collections 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Reference. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. 615 0$aAfrican Americans 615 0$aAmerican literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors. 676 $a810.8/0896073 686 $aLIT004040$aLIT012000$2bisacsh 700 $aMance$b Ajuan Maria$01503061 702 $aMance$b Ajuan Maria 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793565303321 996 $aBefore Harlem$93731207 997 $aUNINA