To Make Negro Literature

Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship

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McHenry, Elizabeth
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Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
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English
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Abstract
Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century, revising concepts of Black authorship and offering a fresh account of the development of “Negro literature” focused on the never published, the barely read, and the unconventional.
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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74652
Keywords
Negro literature; authorship; African American literary history; failure; turn of the century; scaffolding; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
DOI
10.1215/9781478021810
ISBN
9781478091745, 9781478021810, 9781478013594, 9781478014515
Publisher
Duke University Press
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http://www.dukeupress.edu/
Publication date and place
Durham, 2021
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Pages
311
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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