Cloutier Shadow Archives

The Lifecycles of African American Literature
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-55024-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts 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 and provides a nuanced view of how archives shape literary history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cloutier, Jean-Christophe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of 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

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Christophe Cloutier is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is coeditor of Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth (2017) and editor of the original French writings of Jack Kerouac, La vie est d’hommage (2016).