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This book provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War.
List of contents
Black Reconstructions: Introduction Eric Gardner; Part I. Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities: 1. Sketching Black Citizenship on Installment after the 15th Amendment Derrick R. Spires; 2. Stories of Citizenship: The Rise of Narrative Black Poetry During Reconstruction Stephanie Farrar; 3. National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History Rynetta Davis; 4. Reconstructing the Rhetoric of AME Ministry Eric Gardner; Part II. Persons and Bodies: 5. Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance: Textual Politics in the Post-War Era Kathy L. Glass; 6. Post-Civil War Black Childhoods Nazera Sadiq Wright; 7. Disabling Freedom: Bloody Shirt Rhetoric in Postbellum Slave Narratives Keith Michael Green; 8. Radical Respectability and African American Women's Reconstruction Fiction Brigitte Fielder; Part III. Memories, Materialities, and Locations: 9. The Civil War in African American Memory Cody Marrs; 10. African American Literature of the West and the Landscape of Opportunity Janet Neary; 11. Reconstructions of the South in African American Literature Sherita L. Johnson; 12. 'This Is Especially Our Crop': Blackness, Value, and the Reconstruction of Cotton Katherine Adams.
About the author
Eric Gardner is award-winning author of Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2009) and Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture (2015) and editor of rediscovered works by several nineteenth-century African American writers. He teaches at Saginaw Valley State University.
Summary
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.
