TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cloutier,Jean-Christophe
TI  - Shadow archives: the lifecycles of African American literature 
SN  - 9780231550246
AV  - PS153 .S533 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and critcism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Information resources
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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