The first of its kind, this volume sets in dialogue African Americanist and textual scholarship, exploring a wide range of African American textual history and

From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the

From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the

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