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Autore: | Gardner Eric |
Titolo: | Unexpected places [[electronic resource] ] : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature / / Eric Gardner |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9/896073 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) In literature |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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". |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Unexpected places |
ISBN: | 1-282-48512-1 |
9786612485121 | |
1-60473-284-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455231803321 |
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