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Roundtable Description<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the introduction to a 2015 special issue of\u00a0Social Text<\/em>\u00a0on \u201cThe Question of Recovery: Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive,\u201d guest editors Laura Helton, Justin Leroy, Max Mishler, Samantha Seeley, and Shauna Sweeney posit that scholars of Atlantic slavery and freedom \u201ccannot resolve the tension between recovering archival traces of black life as a means of contesting legacies of racism and exclusion, on the one hand, and reading the archive as a site of irrevocable silence that reproduces the racial hierarchies intrinsic to its construction, on the other\u201d (2). The implication here\u2014and fleshed out in the other essays assembled in this particular volume\u2014is that scholarly work on the African diaspora in the Atlantic world must move beyond the previously-dominant paradigm of \u201crecovery,\u201d while also recognizing both its \u201cradical\u201d and \u201creductive\u201d (8) legacies. Our roundtable broadly considers the question of \u201crecovery\u201d by turning its attention to African American literary history in the long nineteenth century\u2014foregrounding its political imperatives, pedagogical implications, and practical considerations.<\/p>\n

As Britt Rusert has recently noted, African American literary studies has witnessed a \u201creturn to the archive\u201d (995) joining new methodologies in the study of book history and print culture with longstanding practices in black feminist scholarship. No longer tied to earlier periods when \u201crecovery and reprint\u201d (1004) efforts worked either to institutionalize and then later legitimate African American literary studies writ large, this resurgence in archival work prompts several important questions: How might we reconcile this archival (re)turn with calls to move away from the paradigm of recovery? How does \u201crecovery work\u201d alter our understandings of canon and canonization? How do we teach recovered works? What might we recover beyond simply texts and authors\u2014ways of being, writing, or living? How has the increasing digitization of archival sources, along with the advent of DH methodologies, impacted recovery efforts and their presentation to broader scholarly and public audiences? What is left to be recovered? Or has recovery run out of steam?<\/p>\n

We are currently seeking additional presenters to fill out this roundtable proposal. Please submit 300-word abstracts along with a short CV to\u00a0rinehart@g.harvard.edu<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0September 10, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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