Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print (Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne); Section I. Infrastructures; Slavery, Black Visual Culture, and the Promises and Problems of Print in the Work of David Drake, Theaster Gates, and Glenn Ligon (P. Gabrielle Foreman); "The Books You've Waited For": Ebony Magazine, the Johnson Book Division, and Black History in Print (E. James West); Making Lists, Keeping Time: Infrastructures of Black Inquiry, 1900-1950 (Laura E. Helton)
Imitation, Racialization, and Interpretive Norms: Nella Larsen's "Plagiarized" Story in The Forum (Barbara Hochman)Section III. Formats; Visionary History: Recovering William J. Wilson's "Afric-American Picture Gallery" (John Ernest, Rian Bowie, Leif Eckstrom, and Britt Rusert); Centering Black Women in the Black Chicago Renaissance: Katherine Williams-Irvin, Olive Diggs, and "New Negro Womanhood" (Aria S. Halliday); The Slave Narrative Unbound (Michaël Roy); The Walking Book (Bryan Sinche); Contributors; Index
Parsing the Special Characters of African American Print Culture: Mary Ann Shadd and the * Limits of Search (Jim Casey)Section II. Paratexts; Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return and the Antiblackness of the Book as an Object (Beth A. McCoy and Jasmine Y. Montgomery); Performative Paratexts: Postblackness, Law, and the Periodization of African American Literature (Jesse A. Goldberg); Richard Wright between Two Fronts: Black Boy in the Black Metropolis (Kinohi Nishikawa)
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African American authors.
African American periodicals.
African Americans and mass media.
African Americans in literature.
American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
American literature-- African American authors-- Publishing-- History.