Early American Literature
Edited by Katy Chiles - University of Tennessee, and Cassander Smith - University of Alabama
Frequency: Spring, Fall, and Winter
Latest Issue: Volume 59, Number 1
Size: 6" x 9", approx. 328 pages
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: Print 0012-8163; Digital 1534-147X
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Founded in 1965, Early American Literature is the official journal of the MLA’s Forum on Early American Literature. It is the only journal that focuses on the scholarship and criticism of American literature through the early national period. It typically includes articles, provocations and inventions, review essays, and many book, resource, and conference reviews. For more information, visit Early American Literature‘s website.
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Katy Chiles, associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee, teaches and writes about early American literary studies, African American and Native American literature, critical race theory, and print cultures. Her book, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literatures of Early America, was published by Oxford University Press, and her work has appeared in PMLA, Early American Literature, American Literature, Race in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2022), and African American Literature in Transition, Volume 1, 1750-1800 (Cambridge UP, 2022). She is currently working on another book project that examines race, collaboration, and print history in early American literature, which has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
Cassander Smith is an associate professor of English and associate dean of academic affairs for the Honors College at the University of Alabama. Her teaching and research focus on early African American, American, and Caribbean literature, with a general focus on the early Black Atlantic. She is the author of Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the early Atlantic (LSU Press, 2016) and Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic (LSU Press 2023). Her current works in progress include a monograph, tentatively titled “Wasteful Bodies: Conservation, Preservation and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” which examines sustainability rhetoric in the shaping of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Open Access Article
Scholars specializing in early American literature have a duty to the public to raise awareness of how past events and beliefs impact our current lives–especially in the midst of a global pandemic and nationwide protests against systemic racism. This is why EAL has decided to provide Christopher Trigg’s essay, “The Racial Politics of Resurrection in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”, open-access on their website. You can read the full article at the following link:
“The Racial Politics of Resurrection in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” by Christopher Trigg
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Co-Editors
Katy Chiles, University of Tennessee
kchiles1@utk.edu
Cassander Smith, University of Alabama
clsmith17@ua.edu
Book Review Editor
Emily Garcia
Northeastern Illinois University
e-garcia20@neiu.edu
Advisory Editor
Marion Rust, University of Kentucky
Assistant Editors
Lauren Santoru
University of Alabama
lasantoru@crimson.ua.edu
Maggie Warren
University of Tennessee
mhess6@vols.utk.edu
Digital Media Editor
Autumn Hall
University of Tennessee
ahall106@vols.utk.edu
Editorial Associate
Christi Stanforth
Editorial Assistant for Reviews
Timothy Garrison
Northeastern Illinois University
T-Garrison@neiu.edu
Editorial Board
Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University
Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
Sarah Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY
Patrick Erben, University of West Georgia
Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University
Zach Hutchins, Colorado State University
Greta LaFleur, Yale University
Rodrigo Lazo, University of California, Irvine
Cedrick May, University of Texas at Arlington
Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University
Joseph Rezek, Boston University
Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon
Derrick Spires, Cornell University
Rhondda Thomas, Clemson University
Karen Weyler, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi
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Table of Contents
Volume 59, Number 1
Editor’s Note
Cassander Smith and Katy Chiles
Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022
Tara Bynum, Ana Schwartz, and Michelle Sizemore
Articles
Feeling Solitary in the Seductive Republic:
Narrative Deviance in Elizabeth “Harriot” Wilson
and William “Amos” Wilson
Ben Bascom
Equiano’s African Methodist Appetite: Feasting and
Purification Rituals as Community and Resistance
Carole Lynn Stewart
Reading with Powhatan Ancestral Remains in Robert
Beverley’s The History and Present State of Virginia
Kimberly Takahata
Forum
The 2023 SEA Common Reading Forum:
On Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Anna Brickhouse, April Langley, and Kaitlin Tonti
Toni Morrison’s A Mercy: A Meditation on Othering
Dana A. Williams
Teaching A Mercy
Riché Richardson
Reading Race and Power in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Angelyn Mitchell
Possibility and A Mercy
Michelle S. Hite
Review Essay
The Din of Pasts Colliding: Latin American
Histories Urbane, Archival, and Sacral
Dana Leibsohn
Book Reviews
Michael Boyden, Vincent Carretta,
Jeannine Marie Delombard, Patrick M.
Erben, Ian Finseth, Theresa Strouth Gaul,
Aston Gonzalez, Ray Horton, Scott M. Larson,
Wendy Raphael Roberts, David Roediger,
Ana Schwartz, Bryan Sinche, Amy L.
Sopcak-Joseph, Ezra Tawil
Resources for Early American Studies
Ryan Carr, Rebecca M. Rosen,
Christopher Trigg, Abram Van Engen
Conference Reviews
Jenny Marie Forsythe, Rowan Red Sky
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