Appointed

An American Novel
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-946684-39-4
Verlag: West Virginia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Reihe: Regenerations

Appointed is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson and Walter Stowers, two of the editors of the Detroit Plaindealer, a long-running and well-regarded African American newspaper of the late nineteenth century. Drawing heavily on nineteenth-century print culture, the authors tell the story of John Saunders, a college-educated black man living and working in Detroit. Through a bizarre Set of circumstances, Saunders befriends his white employer's son, Seth Stanley, and the two men form a lasting, cross-racial bond that leads them to travel together to the American South. On their journey, John shows Seth the harsh realities of American racism and instructs him in how he might take responsibility for alleviating the effects of racism in his own home and in the white world broadly.

As a coauthored novel of frustrated ambition, cross-racial friendship, and the tragedy of lynching, Appointed represents a unique contribution to African American literary history. This is the first scholarly edition of Appointed, and it includes a collection of writings from the Plaindealer, the authors' short story "A Strange Freak of Fate", and an introduction that locates Appointed and its authors within the journalistic and literary currents of the United States in the late nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, William H

Stowers, Walter H

Gardner, Eric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments                                                                                                                        
Introduction                                                                                                                                
Note on the Text                                                                                                                           
Appointed: An American Novel                                                                                                  
Appendix A: Reviews of Appointed                                                                                              
Appendix B: Writings from the Plaindealer                                                                                 
Appendix C: “A Strange Freak of Fate”                                                                                      
Notes                                                                                                                                          
Bibliography of Related Works

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Gardner is a professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University and award-winning author of Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture.

Bryan Sinche is associate professor and chair of English and modern Languages at the University of Hartford. He has published over a dozen articles on nineteenth-century American literature and culture and is the editor of the teacher's guide accompanying the Norton Anthology of African American Literature.