The Cambridge History of African American Literature

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African American Literature, Criticism and Theory

Goyal¹

2016

The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

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African American literature begins with a meditation on the meaning of slavery and freedom, as early writers create new narrative forms to seek agency, subjectivity, and community within the dehumanizing conditions of forced migration and enslavement. The Reconstruction era prompts the literature of racial uplift and the theorization of double consciousness. During the Harlem Renaissance and the black arts era, writers turn to realist protest fiction, lyrical poetry, and committed theater to develop a cultural nationalism that combats continuing segregation and Jim Crow disenfranchisement. Debates over black feminism and queer sexuality challenge black nationalist ideologies. Contemporary African American literature includes strains of black postmodernism, neo‐slavery, and Afrofuturism, as writers continue to develop innovative forms to complicate existing notions of race and representation through debates over politics and aesthetics, diaspora and transnationalism, and gender and sexuality.

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African American Literature, Criticism and Theory

Goyal¹

2016

The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

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The Americas

Kadir¹,

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Braz³

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Negotiating (through) the Skin: The Black Body, Pamphleteering, and African American Writing against Biological Exclusion

Klestil

2023

Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

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This chapter turns to antebellum African American pamphlets, a part of the African American writing tradition generally understudied in comparison with the fugitive slave narrative. Considering the ways in which black pamphleteers dealt with the pressing task of tackling stereotypes and racialisms that sought to exclude the black body “biologically,” I demonstrate how their strategies of writing against this “biological exclusion” could also become a means for expressing environmental knowledge. While including seminal texts like David Walker’s “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World” (1829), this chapter primarily focuses on lesser-known pamphlets by Hosea Easton, John Lewis, and William Whipper. The readings draw attention to alternative lines within the pamphlet tradition and suggest its relevance for ecocriticism.

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The Cambridge History of African American Literature

Cited by 109 publications

References 148 publications

African American Literature, Criticism and Theory

African American Literature, Criticism and Theory

The Americas

Negotiating (through) the Skin: The Black Body, Pamphleteering, and African American Writing against Biological Exclusion

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