The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South
The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature.
History
The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature
October 2015
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Book
The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions, they countered the notion that a person can use a supposed knowledge of human nature to claim full understanding of any other person's life. Instead they posited that being a stranger, unknown and unknowable, was an essential part of the human condition. Affirming the unknown and unknowable differences between people, as individuals and in groups, laid the groundwork for an ethical and democratic society in which all persons could find a place. If everyone is a stranger, then no individual or class can lay claim to the characteristics that define who gets to be a human in political and public arenas.
Lloyd Pratt focuses on nineteenth-century African American writing and publishing venues and practices such as the Colored National Convention movement and literary societies in Nantucket and New Orleans. Examining the writing of Frederick Douglass in tandem with that of the francophone free men of color who published the first anthology of African American poetry in 1845, he contends these authors were never interested in petitioning whites for sympathy or for recognition of their humanity. Instead, they presented a moral imperative to develop practices of stranger humanism in order to forge personal and political connections based on mutually acknowledged and always evolving differences.
Literary Criticism
Historic Totality and the African American Archive
January 2014
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Chapter
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Unauthorized States
Early American literature and its exclusions
October 2013
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Journal article
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PMLA
I am a stranger with thee: Frederick douglass and recognition after 1845
June 2013
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Journal article
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American Literature
Stranger History
March 2013
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Journal article
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J19 The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Early American Literature and Its Exclusions
January 2013
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Journal article
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PMLA-PUBLICATIONS OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
The Nature of Form
January 2013
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Journal article
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J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
The Lyric Public of Les Cenelles
January 2012
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Chapter
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Early African American Print Culture in Theory and Practice
Sovereignty in the Atlantic World
August 2011
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Journal article
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NOVEL A Forum on Fiction
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Close Reading the Present: Eudora Welty's Queer Politics
January 2011
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Chapter
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Queer Time, Queer Becomings
Human beyond Understanding: Frederick Douglass's New Liberal Individual
May 2010
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Journal article
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NOVEL A Forum on Fiction
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
January 2010
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Book
Speech, Print, and Reform on Nantucket
September 2009
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Chapter
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A History of the Book in America Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880
Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880 Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves,
Stephen W. Nissenbaum, Michael Winship ... Like the other volumes of A History
of the Book in America,The Industrial Bookis a collaborative work constructed on
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History
Magna Opera Atlantica
November 2008
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Journal article
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NOVEL A Forum on Fiction
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Special Issue: 'In the Event.'
January 2008
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Other
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Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies
In the event: an Introduction
January 2008
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Journal article
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Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies
New Orleans and its Storm: Exception, Example, or Event?
March 2007
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Journal article
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American Literary History
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
First the Pilgrim, then the Bee [Book review]
January 2007
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Journal article
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Common-Place: A Journal of Early American Culture
Dialect Writing and Simultaneity in the American Historical Romance
December 2002
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Journal article
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Differences
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Progress, Labor, Revolution: The Modern Times of African American Life Writing
January 2000
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Journal article
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Novel: A Forum on Fiction
America Held Captive [Book review]
January 1998
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Journal article
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Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Review of Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature: 1682–1861, by Michelle Burnham
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists [Forum]
Other
The Freedoms of a Stranger: African American Literature around 1845