Unexpected places : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature / Eric Gardner.

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Main Author: Gardner, Eric
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Series:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Physical Description:x, 258 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Duty and daily bread
  • Gateways and borders: Black St. Louis in the 1840s and 1850s
  • Frontiers and domestic centers: Black Indiana,1857-1862
  • The Black West: northern California and beyond, 1865-1877
  • Beyond Philadelphia: the reach of the Recorder, 1865-1880
  • Epilogue: (Re)locating "Hannah Crafts".