Print version: McHenry, Elizabeth To Make Negro Literature Durham : Duke University Press,c2021 ISBN 9781478013594
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / To make Negro literature -- Chapter One / "The information contained in this book will never appear in school histories" / Progress of a Race and Subscription Bookselling at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Two / Thinking bibliographically -- Chapter Three / Washington’s good fortune / Writing and Authorship in Practice -- Chapter Four / The case of Mary Church terrell -- Coda / Underground railroads of meaning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century, revising concepts of Black authorship and offering a fresh account of the development of "Negro literature" focused on the never published, the barely read, and the unconventional..