CFP: African American Literature and Print Culture in the Atlantic World (3/1/05; MLA '05)

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"African American Literature and Print Culture in the Atlantic World"

Scholars of antebellum slave culture and print culture have had little to
say to one another. Studies of African-American literature have emphasized
orality and the folk vernacular over the written and printed, while book
historians have tended to focus on the sort of well-documented market
interventions not typically afforded to African Americans in general and
slaves in particular. There are, however, strong and possibly inextricable
links between the world of slavery and the world the printing press. This
panel seeks proposals that will bring the history of the book and the
history of African, African-American, and Afro-British literature into
dialog. Papers that consider the ways in which the history of the book
enriches and nuances the study of African American literature and the ways
in which experience and example of African Americans complicates the
paradigms and methodologies of the history of the book are encouraged, and
transatlantic perspectives are welcome. Panelists must be (or become)
members of both the MLA and SHARP. Please send abstracts of no more than
250 words by 1 March 2005 to Michael Winship at books_at_uts.cc.utexas.edu.

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