ENGL 6585

African American Print Culture

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This course focuses on early African American print culture as archive, emerging field, and method. We will historicize and theorize modes of antebellum authorship, circulation, infrastructure, and readership as well as attend to particular genres and forms (slave narrative, serial fiction, sketches, poetry, etc.). We'll place special emphasis on periodicals (Freedom's Journal, Frederick Douglass's Paper, the Anglo-African Magazine, etc.), the colored conventions movement, and digital projects, such as the Colored Conventions Project. We will think about what the study of print culture brings to early African American studies, as well as how early African American studies challenges print culture methodologies.

When Offered Spring.

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