Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture

ISBN-13: 9780190237097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 344 str.

Eric Gardner

Opis

Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper and so of a periodical with national reach among free African Americans, Black Print Unbound is at once a massive recovery effort of a publication by African Americans for African Americans, a consideration of the nexus of African Americanist inquiry and print culture studies, and an intervention in the study of literatures of the Civil War, faith communities, and periodicals.

Recenzje

Not only constitutes a significant contribution to the study of African American print but will also likely prove foundational to future research. Gardner has written one of those generous works of scholarship that seeks not to utter the last word on a subject but to open up an archive to new avenues of scholarly activity ...

O autorze

Eric Gardner is Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University.