Black print unbound the Christian recorder, African American literature, and periodical culture

White houses and Black printPart 1. "Our church organ": toward a cultural and material history of the early recorder -- "Dense darkness": recovering the Recorder's history -- From Pine Street to the nation (and back again): the business of the Recorder -- "Their friends...

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1. Verfasser: Gardner, Eric (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2015
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Zusammenfassung:White houses and Black printPart 1. "Our church organ": toward a cultural and material history of the early recorder -- "Dense darkness": recovering the Recorder's history -- From Pine Street to the nation (and back again): the business of the Recorder -- "Their friends at home with papers": Recorder subscription and subscribers -- Part 2. "Would not such a narration be worth reading?": the Christian recorder and African American literary history -- "We are in the world": reading the recorder in the Civil War era -- "So let us hear from all the brethren": the Christian recorder and correspondence -- "That wished home of peace": the personal and the political in Christian recorder elegies -- Black (women's) fortunes and the curse of caste.
Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper and so of a periodical with national reach among free African Americans, Black Print Unbound is 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.
Beschreibung:Includes index
Beschreibung:XI, 329 Seiten
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ISBN:9780190237080
978-0-19-023708-0
9780190237097
978-0-19-023709-7