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 offers rev...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 29 b&w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- 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