Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print - Couverture rigide

 
9780299321505: Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0299321509 ISBN 13 : 9780299321505
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2019

Synopsis

The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of print and digital culture can be as limiting as they are enabling. Contributors to this volume explore the relationship between expression and such frameworks, analyzing how different mediums, library catalogs, and search engines shape the production and reception of written and visual culture. Topics include antebellum literature, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement; "post-Black" art, the role of black librarians, and how present-day technologies aid or hinder the discoverability of work by African Americans. Against a Sharp White Background covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brigitte Fielder is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has written extensively on race, gender, and species in nineteenth-century American literature. Jonathan Senchyne is an assistant professor in the Information School and the director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published several articles on print culture, material textuality, and the digital humanities.

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Éditeur
University of Wisconsin Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0299321509
ISBN 13 
9780299321505
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Fielder Brigitte, Senchyne Jonathan
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Personne responsable
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