{"title":"Lindsay, DiCuirci. Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 288 pp. $69.95. Illus. (ISBN 978-0-8122-5062-6).","authors":"Ashley Cataldo","doi":"10.1086/721644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721644","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91010938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benito Rial, Costas, ed. Aldo Manuzio en la España del Renacimiento. Madrid: Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas, 2019. Nueva Roma 50. 402 pp. € 36. Paper, illus. (ISBN 978-84-00-10578-5).","authors":"Paolo Sachet","doi":"10.1086/721643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80269841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is “Black” about Black Bibliography?","authors":"J. Goldsby, M. Mcgill","doi":"10.1086/719985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719985","url":null,"abstract":"i O the last fifty years, the study of African American literature has grown rapidly in scope and importance. It is now a vital field of specialization in anyUSEnglish department ofmerit. And yet scholars of African American literature still lack thorough bibliographic knowledge of many of the texts at the heart of the field. Why has bibliographic study been marginalized within the field’s development, and what has been the intellectual impact of this inattention?","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"21 1","pages":"161 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73425906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mumbo Jumbo’s Paratextual Condition","authors":"Kinohi Nishikawa","doi":"10.1086/720012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720012","url":null,"abstract":"I 1988 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., published The Signifying Monkey, a book that would become a foundational work in African American literary studies. The study’s influence can be traced to the way Gates fashions both a method and a metaphor for reading African American literature on its own terms. “Repetition, with a signal difference,” or Signifyin(g), is the method of Black vernacular meaning-making Gates imports into literary criticism. In his account, an oral-based culture of constant and tactical revision informs howBlack writers “signify” on the culture of letters in order to make it their own. While Gates surveys studies in contemporary linguistics to make this point, the stakes of his argument lie deeper in the past. As a method of creation and interpretation, he contends, Signifyin(g) derives from practices as old as African civilizations’ contact withWestern European colonizers. From the Yoruba divine trickster Esu-Elegbara down to New World folktales shared among the enslaved, practices of rhetorical troping have survived through the character of the Signifying Monkey, which Gates describes as “an indigenous black","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"25 1","pages":"215 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87090369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne, eds. Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. vii, 318 pp. Casebound, illus. $79.95 (ISBN 9780299321505).","authors":"Samantha M. Sommers","doi":"10.1086/720185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"132 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88863449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elizabeth McHenry. To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. xv, 295 pp. Paperback, $27.95. (ISBN: 978-1-4780-1451-5).","authors":"Laura E. Helton","doi":"10.1086/719976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719976","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77985086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Order and Access: Dorothy Porter and the Mission of Black Bibliography","authors":"Derrick R. Spires","doi":"10.1086/719973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78130731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jean-Christophe Cloutier. Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. $35. 408 pp. Paperback. (ISBN: 978-0-2311-9331-3).","authors":"Margarita M. Castromán Soto","doi":"10.1086/719970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77538497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carolyn Fowler’s Black Arts and Black Aesthetics and Public Bibliography","authors":"Howard Rambsy","doi":"10.1086/720013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720013","url":null,"abstract":"I 1976, Carolyn Fowler, Associate Professor of Black Literature at Atlanta University, began circulating mimeograph copies of an enumerative bibliography consisting of eight hundred entries focusing on a variety of African American arts. Fowler earned her BA and MA in French at UCLA Berkeley and her PhD in Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. She was a specialist in French literature and the Haitian writer Jacques Roumain. Still, her most cited composition was her Black Arts era article, “The Black Writer and His Role” (published when she was known as Carolyn F. Gerald), appearing first inNegro Digest in 1969 and then reprinted in Addison Gayle Jr.’s landmark edited collection, The Black Aesthetic (1971). The rise of the Black Arts Movement and the popularity of her article likely led Fowler to add Black Arts and Black Aesthetics to her research agenda moving forward.","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"108 1","pages":"293 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81458801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eric Gardner. Black Print Unbound: The “Christian Recorder,” African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 344 pp. $39.95. Paperback, illus. 978-0190237097.","authors":"Kassidi Jones","doi":"10.1086/719977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78311521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}