A.M.E. Church
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abolition
African American history
African American Literature
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American Literature
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autobiography
Black church
Black History
book history
book publishing in the United States
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Jacob Stroyer
justice system
Levin Tilmon
M.E. Church
nineteenth-century literature
print culture
printing history
Rev. Robert B. Anderson
Rev. Thomas James
self-publication
slave narrative
South
Thomas Smallwood
William J. Anderson
writing by enslaved people
Product details
- ISBN 9781469674124
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2024
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with an intellect and a voice that matters. Because nineteenth-century Black Americans knew that publication could empower them, and because they faced numerous challenges getting their writing into print or the literary market, many published their own books and pamphlets in order to garner social, political, or economic rewards. In doing so, these authors nurtured a tradition of creativity and critique that has remained largely hidden from view.
Bryan Sinche surveys the hidden history of African American self-publication and offers new ways to understand the significance of publication as a creative, reformist, and remunerative project. Full of surprising turns, Sinche's study is not simply a look at genre or a movement; it is a fundamental reassessment of how print culture allowed Black ideas and stories to be disseminated to a wider reading public and enabled authors to retain financial and editorial control over their own narratives.
Bryan Sinche surveys the hidden history of African American self-publication and offers new ways to understand the significance of publication as a creative, reformist, and remunerative project. Full of surprising turns, Sinche's study is not simply a look at genre or a movement; it is a fundamental reassessment of how print culture allowed Black ideas and stories to be disseminated to a wider reading public and enabled authors to retain financial and editorial control over their own narratives.
Bryan Sinche is professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at the University of Hartford.
