Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print (Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne)
Section I. Infrastructures
Slavery, Black Visual Culture, and the Promises and Problems of Print in the Work of David Drake, Theaster Gates, and Glenn Ligon (P. Gabrielle Foreman)
“The Books You’ve Waited For”: Ebony Magazine, the Johnson Book Division, and Black History in Print (E. James West)
Making Lists, Keeping Time: Infrastructures of Black Inquiry, 1900–1950 (Laura E. Helton)
Parsing the Special Characters of African American Print Culture: Mary Ann Shadd and the * Limits of Search (Jim Casey)
Section II. Paratexts
Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return and the Antiblackness of the Book as an Object (Beth A. McCoy and Jasmine Y. Montgomery)
Performative Paratexts: Postblackness, Law, and the Periodization of African American Literature (Jesse A. Goldberg)
Richard Wright between Two Fronts: Black Boy in the Black Metropolis (Kinohi Nishikawa)
Imitation, Racialization, and Interpretive Norms: Nella Larsen’s “Plagiarized” Story in The Forum (Barbara Hochman)
Section III. Formats
Visionary History: Recovering William J. Wilson’s “Afric-American Picture Gallery” (John Ernest, Rian Bowie, Leif Eckstrom, and Britt Rusert)
Centering Black Women in the Black Chicago Renaissance: Katherine Williams-Irvin, Olive Diggs, and “New Negro Womanhood” (Aria S. Halliday)
The Slave Narrative Unbound (Michaël Roy)
The Walking Book (Bryan Sinche)
Contributors
Index