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Penman's Devil: The Chirographic and Typographic Urgency of Race in the "Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African"
Ist Teil von
Early American literature, 2013-09, Vol.48 (3), p.577-612
Ort / Verlag
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
According to her edito- rial note, Crew hoped to demonstrate "that an untutored African may pos- sess abilities equal to an European; and the still superior motive, of wishing to serve his worthy family" (4). Crew believed this demonstration would do much to counter doubts about the humanity and the mental capacities of African men and women.2 In light of the overt connections Sancho and his readers made among race, ethnicity, and the physical materials of writing, printing, and read- ing, it is surprising that more scholars have not explicitly brought the con- cerns of book history and media studies to bear on the Letters.3 Leon Jack- son and Joseph Rezek have made similar observations about the relative lack of intellectual exchange between book historians and scholars of their respective domains, African American culture and the Black Atlantic.4 A clear expression of the neglect that they observe can be found, ironically, in literary critic Sukhdev Sandhu's work on Sanchos manuscript prac- tices.