Title African American literature in transition, 1750-1800 / edited by Rhondda Robinson Thomas, Clemson University, South Carolina

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 339 pages) Series African American literature in transition African American literature in transition. 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 Summary "This volume provides an illuminating exploration of the development of early African American literature from an African diasporic perspective-in Africa, England, and the Americas. It juxtaposes analyses of writings by familiar authors like Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano with those of lesser known or examined works by writers such as David Margrett and Isabel de Olvera to explore how issues including forced migration, enslavement, authorship, and racial identity influenced early Black literary production and how theoretical frameworks like Afrofuturism and intersectionality can enrich our understanding of texts produced in this period. Chapters grouped in four sections-Limits and Liberties of Early Black Print Culture, Black Writing and Revolution, Early African American Life in Literature, and Evolutions of Early Black Literature-examine how transitions coupled with conceptions of race, the impacts of revolution, and the effects of religion shaped the trajectory of authors' lives and the production of their literature. Rhondda Robinson Thomas is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University specializing in early African American literature. She is the author of Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1770-1903 (2013). Her essays have appeared in African American Review and American Literary History. She is a member of the Society of Early Americanists"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 25, 2022) Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 18th century African Americans in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American literature -- African American authors Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book Author Thomas, Rhondda Robinson, editor. LC no. 2021039470 ISBN 9781108860864 1108860869

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