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Baaki, Brian.

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A dark record: Criminal discourse and the African American literary project, 1721--1864.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A dark record: Criminal discourse and the African American literary project, 1721--1864./
Author:	Baaki, Brian.
Description:	174 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-09A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10105430
ISBN:	9781339688961

A dark record: Criminal discourse and the African American literary project, 1721--1864.
Baaki, Brian.

A dark record: Criminal discourse and the African American literary project, 1721--1864. - 174 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2016.

A Dark Record charts the emergence and traces the evolution of a central figure in American culture, the myth of the black criminal. It does so both to explore the ideological effects of print, and to present an alternative history of African American literature. Historians have long maintained that the association of African Americans with crime solidified in our national culture during the post-Reconstruction period, the nadir for African American civil rights, with a corresponding rise in the over-policing of black individuals and communities. For its part, my study looks back from the post-Reconstruction period, and examines the role earlier American literature and print culture played in making the association of blackness with criminality (an association that arguably still remains in our present culture) so readily accepted by the end of the nineteenth century. Examining an archive of texts spanning from the colonial era execution sermons of Puritan New England, to slave narratives and fiction of the Civil War period, my study reveals an association of black people with crime as perhaps one of the oldest tropes in Anglo-American literary production. Yet I also view criminal discourse as a key point of entry for African American authors and literary subjects into the nation's cultures of print. This work ultimately argues that a sharpened focus on the issue of black criminality provides a new understanding of the first periods of the nation's literature, as well as a more complete view of African American literary history.

ISBN: 9781339688961Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

A dark record: Criminal discourse and the African American literary project, 1721--1864.
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