African American Literature in Transition, 1750-1800: Volume 1

Hardback

Main Details

Title African American Literature in Transition, 1750-1800: Volume 1
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Rhondda Robinson Thomas
SeriesAfrican American Literature in Transition
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 154
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
ISBN/Barcode 9781108495073
ClassificationsDewey:810.989607309033
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 7 April 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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, American Literary History, and the Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. She is a member of the Society of Early Americanists.