African American literature in transition, 1750-1800 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Other Authors:	Thomas, Rhondda Robinson (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:	African American literature in transition.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > Intellectual life > 18th century. African Americans in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. African Americans > Intellectual life. American literature > African American authors. 1700-1799 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : "Impatient of Oppression" in Early African American Writing in Transition / Rhondda Robinson Thomas
Part I. Limits and Liberties of Early Black Print Culture. 1. Early Black Evangelical Writing and the Limits of Print / Joseph Rezek
2. The Circulation of Early Black Atlantic Literature / Eric D. Lamore
3. What Makes a Text "Black"? From Authorship to Metadata / Jordan Alexander Stein
Part II. Black Writing and Revolution. 4. Anglo-Africans Writing Themselves into History during the Age of Revolution / Daniel C. Littlefield
5. Joining the Revolution African American Writing in the Era of Independence / Thomas J. Davis
6. Black Literary Engagement with the Haitian Revolution / Ronald Angelo Johnson
Part III. Early African American Life in Literature. 7. Reading and Building a Nation; or, Everyday Living (while Black) in Early America / Tara A. Bynum
8. Respectability Politics and Early African American Literature / Cassander L. Smith
9. Early Black Futures / Brigitte Fielder
Part IV. Evolutions of Early Black Literature. Black Authors and British National Identity, 1763-1791 / Ryan Hanley
11. The Competing Demands of Early African American Literature / Katy L. Chiles
12. Black Letters Close the Eighteenth Century / John Saillant.