Unexpected places [[electronic resource] ] : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature / / Eric Gardner

• Autore: Gardner Eric
• 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
• 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: 9786612485121; 1-60473-284-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778415503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.