TY - BOOK ID - 101242059 TI - African American literature in transition, 1750-1800 PY - 2022 SN - 1108860869 1108495079 1108858767 1108851770 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - African Americans KW - African Americans in literature. KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Intellectual life KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Black people KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101242059 AB - This volume provides an illuminating exploration of the development of early African American literature from an African diasporic perspective-in Africa, England, and the Americas. It juxtaposes analyses of writings by familiar authors like Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano with those of lesser known or examined works by writers such as David Margrett and Isabel de Olvera to explore how issues including forced migration, enslavement, authorship, and racial identity influenced early Black literary production and how theoretical frameworks like Afrofuturism and intersectionality can enrich our understanding of texts produced in this period. Chapters grouped in four sections - Limits and Liberties of Early Black Print Culture, Black Writing and Revolution, Early African American Life in Literature, and Evolutions of Early Black Literature - examine how transitions coupled with conceptions of race, the impacts of revolution, and the effects of religion shaped the trajectory of authors' lives and the production of their literature. ER -