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In the Neighborhood
Caroline Wigginton
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Description for In the Neighborhood
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 black and white & 9 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
In this compelling and original book, Caroline Wigginton reshapes our understanding of early American literary history. Overturning long-standing connections between the male-dominated print culture of pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers and the transformative ideas that instigated the American Revolution, Wigginton explores how women’s “relational publications”—circulated texts, objects, and performances—transformed their public and intimate worlds. She argues that Native, black, and white women’s interpersonal “publications” revolutionized the dynamics of power and connection in public and private spaces, whether those spaces were Quaker meeting houses, Creek talwas, trading posts, burial grounds, or the women’s own “neighborhoods.”
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In this compelling and original book, Caroline Wigginton reshapes our understanding of early American literary history. Overturning long-standing connections between the male-dominated print culture of pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers and the transformative ideas that instigated the American Revolution, Wigginton explores how women’s “relational publications”—circulated texts, objects, and performances—transformed their public and intimate worlds. She argues that Native, black, and white women’s interpersonal “publications” revolutionized the dynamics of power and connection in public and private spaces, whether those spaces were Quaker meeting houses, Creek talwas, trading posts, burial grounds, or the women’s own “neighborhoods.”
Informed by deep and rich archival ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625342225
SKU
V9781625342225
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Ref
99-1
About Caroline Wigginton
Caroline Wigginton is assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi, USA.
Reviews for In the Neighborhood
With its focus on ‘relational publications,’ the book challenges standard accounts of eighteenth-century print culture, according to which men engaged with print to build the new nation and shape the publics that became a key space for defining identity.""—Kelly Wisecup, author of Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013) ""A compelling work ... Read more