Intimate Matters in This Place: The Underground Railroad of Literature

• Published in: Legacy (Amherst, Mass.) Mass.), 2019-01, Vol.36 (2), p.245-248
• Main Author: Foster, Frances Smith
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 19th century; American literature; Archives & records; Authorship; Biographies; Black literature; Brown, Lois; Democracy; Families & family life; Faulkner, William (1897-1962); Forum: Recovery and Democracy; Harlem Renaissance; Keckley, Elizabeth (ca 1818-1907); Literary criticism; Literary devices; Literature; Mothers; Narratives; Obama, Barack; Public libraries; Reading; Scholars; Theater; Underground Railroad; Walker, Alice (1944- ); Writers
• ISSN: 0748-4321; 1534-0643
• DOI: 10.5250/LEGACY.36.2.0245

[...]as Sharon M. Harris (one of the founders and the first president of SSAAW) stated several scholarly generations ago: "Once a text is 'recovered,' it must be analyzed through an equally broad compendium of theoretical perspectives, cultural contexts, transatlantic contexts, interdisciplinary contexts, and print and production contexts. Ellen Gruber Garvey's Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance is one station from which to start; Elizabeth S. D. Englehardt's A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food, Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman et al.'s "Archive Survival Guide," and Lois Brown's "Memorial Narratives of African Women in Antebellum New England" are three of many others. 5. The Old Globe Theater, San Diego's oldest and most prestigious drama stage, then chose Thompson's workshop exercise for a reader's theater performance that attracted a standing-room-only audience. Because Norman N. Holland's statement is the first in "Inevitability of the Personal," he is listed as the first author in the Works Cited.