Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42747-0 — African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 Volume 5: 1865–1880 Frontmatter More Information AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN TRANSITION, – This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies materials that many literary historians leave out of narratives of American culture. But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, – also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such recovery inherently challenges methods dominant in American literary study. At the book’s core is the recognition that many period texts – by writers from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward – are not only aesthetically striking but also central to understanding key socio- historical and cultural trends in the nineteenth century. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped in three sections –“Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities,”“Persons and Bodies,” and “Memories, Materialities, and Locations”–and focus on debates over race, nation, personhood, and print that were central to Reconstruction. is the award-winning author of Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature () and Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture () and editor of rediscovered works by several nineteenth-century African American writers. He teaches at Saginaw Valley State University. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42747-0 — African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 Volume 5: 1865–1880 Frontmatter More Information Editor Joycelyn K. Moody, The University of Texas at San Antonio Associate Editor Cassander Smith, The University of Alabama Across authoritative volumes and featuring over of today’s foremost literary critics and social historians, African American Literature in Transition offers a critical and comprehensive revisionary analysis of creative expression by people of African descent. Reading transtemporally from the origins of “African American literature” by the first peoples calling themselves “African Americans,” this series foregrounds change, and examines pivotal moments, years, decades, and centuries in African American literature and culture. While collectively analyzing both far-reaching and flash-forward transitions within four centuries, the multi- volume series replaces conventional historical periodization in African American scholastic and literary anthologies with a framework that contextualizes shifts, changes, and transformations in African American literature, culture, politics, and history. 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Spires Stories of Citizenship: The Rise of Narrative Black Poetry during Reconstruction by Stephanie Farrar National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History by Rynetta Davis Reconstructing the Rhetoric of AME Ministry by Eric Gardner Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance: Textual Politics in the Postwar Era by Kathy L. Glass v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42747-0 — African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 Volume 5: 1865–1880 Frontmatter More Information vi Contents Post-Civil War Black Childhoods by Nazera Sadiq Wright Disabling Freedom: Bloody Shirt Rhetoric in Postbellum Slave Narratives by Keith Michael Green Radical Respectability and African American Women’s Reconstruction Fiction by Brigitte Fielder , , The Civil War in African American Memory by Cody Marrs African American Literature of the West and the Landscape of Opportunity by Janet Neary Reconstructions of the South in African American Literature by Sherita L. Johnson “This Is Especially Our Crop”: Blackness, Value, and the Reconstruction of Cotton by Katherine Adams Index © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42747-0 — African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 Volume 5: 1865–1880 Frontmatter More Information Figures Figure i. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper page Figure . “The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May th, ” Figure . AME Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne Figure . Henry McNeal Turner Figure . Carte de visite of two unidentified children circa late s Figure . “Franchise. And not this man?” Figure . Sojourner Truth Figure . Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Figure . Unidentified African American boy Figure . “Cotton warehouse, drying cotton, Charleston, S.C.” vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42747-0 — African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 Volume 5: 1865–1880 Frontmatter More Information Contributors . , Cornell University , University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire , University of Kentucky , Saginaw Valley State University . , Duquesne University , University of Kentucky , Rutgers University – Camden , University of Wisconsin – Madison , University of Georgia , Hunter College, CUNY . , University of Southern Mississippi , Tulane University viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42747-0 — African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 Volume 5: 1865–1880 Frontmatter More Information Preface African American Literature in Transition Joycelyn K. Moody, General Editor When I accepted the invitation to act as Series Editor for African American Literature in Transition, Barack Obama had several months more to serve as President of the United States. The US was in a time of tremendous transition, we knew, but the extent of the impact of the coming election and its outcomes on the lives of African Americans, we had yet to learn. In the years since, dozens of today’s foremost literary critics and social historians have traced across this authoritative multi-volume series revi- sionary