Shadow archives : the lifecycles of African American literature / Jean-Christophe Cloutier.

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Cloutier, Jean-Christophe [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780231550246

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PS153 .S533 2019

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Contents:

Black special collections and the midcentury rise of the institutional collector -- Claude McKay's archival rebirth : provenance and politics in Amiable with Big Teeth -- "At once both document and symbol": Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and the Lafargue Clinic Photographic Archive -- An interlude concerning the vanishing manuscripts of Ann Petry -- "Too obscure for learned classification": comic books, counterculture, and archival invisibility in Invisible Man -- Coda. disappointed bridges : a note on the discovery of Amiable with Big Teeth.

Subject: Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers and provides a nuanced view of how archives shape literary history.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: "not like an arrow, but a boomerang," or the lifecycles of twentieth century African American literary papers -- Black special collections and the midcentury rise of the institutional collector -- Claude McKay's archival rebirth : provenance and politics in Amiable with Big Teeth -- "At once both document and symbol": Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and the Lafargue Clinic Photographic Archive -- An interlude concerning the vanishing manuscripts of Ann Petry -- "Too obscure for learned classification": comic books, counterculture, and archival invisibility in Invisible Man -- Coda. disappointed bridges : a note on the discovery of Amiable with Big Teeth.

Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers and provides a nuanced view of how archives shape literary history.

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