Shadow Archives : : The Lifecycles of African American Literature / / Jean-Christophe Cloutier.
Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts-including Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth-to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offer...
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Cloutier, Jean-Christophe, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Shadow Archives : The Lifecycles of African American Literature / Jean-Christophe Cloutier. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource : 29 b&w photographs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Not Like an Arrow, but a Boomerang," or The Lifecycles of Twentieth- Century African American Literary Papers -- 1. Black Special Collections and the Midcentury Rise of the Institutional Collector -- 2. Claude McKay's Archival Rebirth: Provenance and Politics in Amiable with Big Teeth -- 3. "At Once Both Document and Symbol": Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and the Lafargue Clinic Photographic Archive -- 4. An Interlude Concerning the Vanishing Manuscripts of Ann Petry -- 5. "Too Obscure for Learned Classification": Comic Books, Counterculture, and Archival Invisibility in Invisible Man -- Coda. Disappointed Bridges: A Note on the Discovery of Amiable with Big Teeth -- Appendix: Artifact Biographies or Vagabond Itineraries of Key Documents Discussed in This Book -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts-including Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth-to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison, and provides a nuanced view of how archival methodology, access, and the power dynamics of acquisitions shape literary history.Shadow Archives argues that the notion of the archive is crucial to our understanding of postwar African American literary history. Cloutier combines his own experiences as a researcher and archivist with a theoretically rich account of the archive to offer a pioneering study of the importance of African American authors' archival practices and how these shaped their writing. Given the lack of institutions dedicated to the black experience, the novel became an alternative site of historical preservation, a means to ensure both individual legacy and group survival. Such archivism manifests in the work of these authors through evolving lifecycles where documents undergo repurposing, revision, insertion, falsification, transformation, and fictionalization, sometimes across decades. An innovative interdisciplinary consideration of literary papers, Shadow Archives proposes new ways for literary scholars to engage with the archive. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) African American authors History and criticism. African Americans Intellectual life 20th century. American literature African American authors History and criticism. American literature African American authors. American literature 20th century Research Methodology. American literature 20th century Information resources. Archives Methodology. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110651959 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2019 English 9783110610369 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2019 9783110606348 ZDB-23-DKU print 9780231193306 https://doi.org/10.7312/clou19330 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231550246 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231550246/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Not Like an Arrow, but a Boomerang," or The Lifecycles of Twentieth- Century African American Literary Papers -- 1. Black Special Collections and the Midcentury Rise of the Institutional Collector -- 2. Claude McKay's Archival Rebirth: Provenance and Politics in Amiable with Big Teeth -- 3. "At Once Both Document and Symbol": Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and the Lafargue Clinic Photographic Archive -- 4. An Interlude Concerning the Vanishing Manuscripts of Ann Petry -- 5. "Too Obscure for Learned Classification": Comic Books, Counterculture, and Archival Invisibility in Invisible Man -- Coda. Disappointed Bridges: A Note on the Discovery of Amiable with Big Teeth -- Appendix: Artifact Biographies or Vagabond Itineraries of Key Documents Discussed in This Book -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index |
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