Shadow archives : the lifecycles of African American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cloutier, Jean-Christophe (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > Information resources. American literature > 20th century > Research > Methodology. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. 1900-1999 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "not like an arrow, but a boomerang," or the lifecycles of twentieth century African American literary papers
Black special collections and the midcentury rise of the institutional collector
Claude McKay's archival rebirth : provenance and politics in Amiable with Big Teeth
"At once both document and symbol": Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and the Lafargue Clinic Photographic Archive
An interlude concerning the vanishing manuscripts of Ann Petry
"Too obscure for learned classification": comic books, counterculture, and archival invisibility in Invisible Man
Coda. disappointed bridges : a note on the discovery of Amiable with Big Teeth.