Shadow archives
the lifecycles of African American literature
Bände/Inhalt:
- 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 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.