Feb 5
Ourika in Africa: Race and Revision in the Early Black Press
Adam Lewis, Reference & Instruction Librarian for Humanities will give a research talk titled "Ourika in Africa: Race and Revision in the Early Black Press."
What’s at stake when Black editors revise or rewrite the work of white authors, particularly of literary texts featuring Black characters? This talk considers this question by focusing on a unique edition of the popular nineteenth-century French novel Ourika printed in the Liberia Herald. Drawing on the interdisciplinary fields of book history and cultural studies, it considers the politics of race, representation, and revision in transatlantic print cultures of the nineteenth century.
This talk is sponsored by Africana Studies, American Studies & French and Francophone Studies.
from American Studies