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Author:

Gardner, Eric.

Title:

Unexpected places : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature / Eric Gardner.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 258 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
West (U.S.)--In literature.
Regionalism in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Duty and daily bread -- Gateways and borders: Black St. Louis in the 1840s and 1850s -- Frontiers and domestic centers: Black Indiana,1857-1862 -- The Black West: northern California and beyond, 1865-1877 -- Beyond Philadelphia: the reach of the Recorder, 1865-1880 -- Epilogue: (Re)locating "Hannah Crafts".

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

ISBN:

1604732830
9781604732832 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)316232737

LCCN:

2009009672

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)