Black Print Unbound
The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 September 2015
- ISBN 9780190237080
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages346 pages
- Size 155x236x17 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 23 halftones 0
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Short description:
Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War.
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Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the official African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper (a periodical of national reach and scope among free African Americans), Black Print Unbound is thus at once a massive recovery effort of a publication by African Americans for African Americans, a consideration of the nexus of African Americanist inquiry and print culture studies, and an intervention in the study of literatures of the Civil War, faith communities, and periodicals. The book pairs a longitudinal sense of the Recorder's ideological, political, and aesthetic development with the fullest account available of how the physical paper moved from composition to real, traceable subscribers. It builds from this cultural and material history to recover and analyze diverse and often unknown texts published in the Recorder including letters, poems, and a serialized novel-texts that were crucial to the development of African American literature and culture and that challenge our senses of genre, authorship, and community. In this, Black Print Unbound offers a case study for understanding how African Americans inserted themselves in an often-hostile American print culture in the midst of the most complex conflict the young nation had yet seen, and it thus calls for a significant rewriting of our senses of African American-and so American-literary history.
With Black Print Unbound, Eric Gardner has significantly advanced the study of African American culture and history while at the same time giving a master class in working across the various methods of inquiry and styles of research gathered under the big tent of print culture studies ... Black Print Unbound uses bibliography, biography, history, and literary criticism to deliver a field defining and field expanding work.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1
White Houses and Black Print
Part I:
"Our Church Organ": Toward a Cultural and Material History of the Early Recorder
Chapter 2
"Dense Darkness": Recovering the Recorder's History
Chapter 3
From Pine Street to the Nation (and Back Again): The Business of the Recorder
Chapter 4
"Their Friends at Home with Papers": Recorder Subscription and Subscribers
Part II:
"Would not such a narration be worth reading?": The Christian Recorder and African American Literary History
Chapter 5
"We are in the world": Reading the Recorder in the Civil War Era
Chapter 6
"So Let Us Hear from All the Brethren": The Christian Recorder and Correspondence
Chapter 7
"That Wished Home of Peace": The Personal and the Political in Christian Recorder Elegies
Chapter 8
Black (Women's) Fortunes and The Curse of Caste
Works Cited
Index
