Early African American Print Culture.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Early African American Print Culture -- PART I. VECTORS OF MOVEMENT -- Chapter 1. The Print Atlantic: Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and the Cultural Significance of the Book -- Chapter 2. The Unfortunates: What the Life Spans of Early Black Books Tell Us About Book History -- Chapter 3. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry -- Chapter 4. Early African American Print Culture and the American West -- PART II. RACIALIZATION AND IDENTITY PRODUCTION -- Chapter 5. Apprehending Early African American Literary History -- Chapter 6. Black Voices, White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity, and Order in the Early American Republic -- Chapter 7. Slavery, Imprinted: The Life and Narrative of William Grimes -- Chapter 8. Bottles of Ink and Reams of Paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Culture of Print -- PART III. ADAPTATION, CITATION, DEPLOYMENT -- Chapter 9. Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: The Practice of Citation in Clotel -- Chapter 10. The Canon in Front of Them: African American Deployments of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" -- Chapter 11. Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Hagar's Daughter -- Chapter 12. "Photographs to Answer Our Purposes": Representations of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture -- Chapter 13. Networking Uncle Tom's Cabin -- or, Hyper Stowe in Early African American Print Culture -- PART IV. PUBLIC PERFORMANCES -- Chapter 14. The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles -- Chapter 15. Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions -- Chapter 16. "Keep It Before the People": The Pictorialization of American Abolitionism -- Chapter 17. John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Performance, and the Making of Publics in Early African American Literature.

Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading.

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