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In the Neighborhood: Women's Publication in Early America
Contributor(s): Wigginton, Caroline (Author)
ISBN: 1625342225     ISBN-13: 9781625342225
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
OUR PRICE:   $26.55  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 810.992
LCCN: 2016004212
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
In this compelling and original book, Caroline Wigginton reshapes our understanding of early American literary history. Overturning long-standing connections between the male-dominated print culture of pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers and the transformative ideas that instigated the American Revolution, Wigginton explores how women's relational publications--circulated texts, objects, and performances--transformed their public and intimate worlds. She argues that Native, black, and white women's interpersonal publications revolutionized the dynamics of power and connection in public and private spaces, whether those spaces were Quaker meeting houses, Creek talwas, trading posts, burial grounds, or the women's own neighborhoods.

Informed by deep and rich archival research, Wigginton's case studies explore specific instances of relational publication. The book begins with a pairing of examples--the statement a grieving Lenape mother made through a wampum belt and the political affiliations created when a salon hostess shared her poetry. Subsequent chapters trace a history of women's publication practice, including a Creek woman's diplomatic and legal procession-spectacles in the colonial Southeast, a black mother's expression of protest in Newport, Rhode Island, and the resulting evangelical revival, Phillis Wheatley's elegies that refigured neighborhoods of enslaved and free Bostonians, and a Quaker woman's pious and political commonplace book in Revolutionary Philadelphia.