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Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Bryan Sinche (Autor)

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2024
274 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7414-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with an intellect and a voice that matters. Because nineteenth-century Black Americans knew that publication could empower them, and because they faced numerous challenges getting their writing into print or the literary market, many published their own books and pamphlets in order to garner social, political, or economic rewards. In doing so, these authors nurtured a tradition of creativity and critique that has remained largely hidden from view.Bryan Sinche surveys the hidden history of African American self-publication and offers new ways to understand the significance of publication as a creative, reformist, and remunerative project. Full of surprising turns, Sinches study is not simply a look at genre or a movement; it is a fundamental reassessment of how print culture allowed Black ideas and stories to be disseminated to a wider reading public and enabled authors to retain financial and editorial control over their own narratives.

Autor

Bryan Sinche is professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at the University of Hartford.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.4.2024
• Reihe/Serie: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 19 halftones, 4 tables
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abolition • African American History • African American literature • African American Studies • A.M.E. Church • American Literature • Autobiography • Black Church • Black History • Book History • book publishing in the United States • Christopher McPherson • Harriet Wilson • Henry Parker • Jacob Stroyer • James Mars • Jarena Lee • Justice system • Levin Tilmon • Lucy Delaney • Major James Wilkerson • M.E. Church, South • Nineteenth-Century Literature • Norvel Blair • Osborne P. Anderson • our nig • Peter Randolph • Print Culture • Printing History • Rev. David Smith • Rev. Elijah Marrs • Rev. Robert B. Anderson • Rev. Thomas James • self-publication • Slave Narrative • Thomas Smallwood • William J. Anderson • writing by enslaved people
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7414-9 / 1469674149
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7414-8 / 9781469674148