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African American Literature in Transition, 1980¿1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsiders conventional temporal, spatial, and moral understandings of how African American letters emerged immediately after the movement James Baldwin describes as the 'latest slave rebellion.' As such, the question of the state of America's democratic project as refracted through the literature of the shaping presence of African Americans is one of the guiding concerns of this volume preoccupied with a moment in American literary history still burdened by the legacies of the 1960s, while imagining the contours of an African Americanist future in the new millennium.

This volume charts the ways in which African American literature fosters transitions between material cultures and contexts from 1830 to 1850, and showcases work that explores how African American literature and lived experiences shaped one another. Chapters focus on the interplay between pivotal political and social events, including emancipation in the West Indies, the Irish Famine, and the Fugitive Slave Act, and key African American cultural productions, such as the poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the writings of David Walker, and the genre of the Slave Narrative. Chapters also examine the relationship between African American literature and a variety of institutions including, the press, and the post office. The chapters are grouped together in three sections, each of which is focused on transitions within a particular geographic scale: the local, the national, and the transnational. Taken together, they offer a crucial account of how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of the 1830s, 1840s, and beyond.

This book embraces the very notion of African American literature and culture as both the subject and the agent of transition. It interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, not only as it confronts racism but also as it explores blackness as the source for art and politics.

This book looks beyond the familiar story of the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement. Discussing the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and decor alongside more concrete historical and literary analyses, the volume investigates concepts, events, and figures that have been obscured by the customary narratives of the era.

This volume provides a meticulous analysis of the development of early African American literature from an African diasporic perspective. It includes explorations of both oral and written texts by people of African descent who created a distinct literary tradition shaped by transitional forces-from forced migrations to political revolutions.

The volume is for scholars and researchers interested in African American and American literature and history. Chapters explore African American writing during the Great Depression to examine 1930s Black life, culture, and politics and, ultimately, to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed their economic vulnerability.

This book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to African American literary history, showcasing the transitions in literary and cultural productions that took shape at the turn into the twentieth century. Its range and scope make it a key resource for scholars, students, and researchers.

This volume provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War. Studying authors from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward, it both recovers and innovatively studies Black print culture of US Reconstruction.

This volume considers texts produced by African Americans between 1800 and 1830, under unique constraints. This volume fills a gap in what scholars and students understand about early African American literature, and reframes approaches to the archive and to primary resources of the period.

This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understanding. A fluid tradition attentive to 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