Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature

Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered...
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Author: Jean-Christophe Cloutier
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Language: English
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Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature by Cloutier, Jean-Christophe

Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature

CHF 80.09

Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature

CHF 80.09
Author: Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts--including Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth--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, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison, and provides a nuanced view of how archival methodology, access, and the power dynamics of acquisitions shape literary history.

Shadow Archives argues that the notion of the archive is crucial to our understanding of postwar African American literary history. Cloutier combines his own experiences as a researcher and archivist with a theoretically rich account of the archive to offer a pioneering study of the importance of African American authors' archival practices and how these shaped their writing. Given the lack of institutions dedicated to the black experience, the novel became an alternative site of historical preservation, a means to ensure both individual legacy and group survival. Such archivism manifests in the work of these authors through evolving lifecycles where documents undergo repurposing, revision, insertion, falsification, transformation, and fictionalization, sometimes across decades. An innovative interdisciplinary consideration of literary papers, Shadow Archives proposes new ways for literary scholars to engage with the archive.

Author: Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780231193313

About the Author
Jean-Christophe Cloutier is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is coeditor of Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth (2017) and editor of the original French writings of Jack Kerouac, La vie est d'hommage (2016).

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