African American Literature in Transition, 1850-1865: Volume 4, 1850-1865 (Hardcover)

The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly 'free' nation. This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understandings of both African American and American literature. It presents a fluid tradition that includes history, science, politics, economics, space and movement, the visual, and the sonic. Black writing was highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries. Chapters explore how Black literature was being produced and circulated; how and why it marked its relation to other literary and expressive traditions; what geopolitical imaginaries it facilitated through representation; and what technologies, including print, enabled African Americans to pursue such a complex and ongoing aesthetic and political project.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	African American Literature in Transition
Release date:	May 2021
Editors:	Teresa Zackodnik
Dimensions:	235 x 162 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	414
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-42748-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
LSN:	1-108-42748-0
Barcode:	9781108427487

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