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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Main Author: Cloutier, Jean-Christophe (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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Physical Description:xx, 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: "not like an arrow, but a boomerang," or the lifecycles of twentieth century African American literary papers -- Black special collections and the midcentury rise of the institutional collector -- Claude McKay's archival rebirth: provenance and politics in Amiable with big teeth -- "At once both document and symbol": Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Lafargue Clinic Photographic Archive -- An interlude concerning the vanishing manuscripts of Ann Petry -- "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. 
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