Benjamin Fagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Fagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Fagan |
| SIGNATURE | FAGAN B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
This volume charts the ways in which African American literature fosters transitions between material cultures and contexts from 1830 to 1850, and showcases work that explores how African American literature and lived experiences shaped one another. Chapters focus on the interplay between pivotal political and social events, including emancipation in the West Indies, the Irish Famine, and the Fugitive Slave Act, and key African American cultural …
African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850
Journalism
This chapter explores the four periodicals edited by Frederick Douglass. Made possible through the contributions of various and sundry staff members and filled with pieces from a diverse range of writers, Douglass’s newspapers were collaborative productions that he not only contributed to as a writer but, more centrally, oversaw as an editor. Douglass’s newspapers were wide-ranging, diverse publications that resist any easy summary. But consideri…
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading
Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading Benjamin Fagan My contribution to this forum explores how we might apply some of the insights and priorities of scholars working in early African American literary studies to the study of early American print cultures. Literary historians such as Carla L. Peterson, Elizabeth McHenry, and Joycelyn Moody remind us not only that communities of black writers, orators, editors, and readers produced books…
The North Star and the Atlantic 1848
Focusing on the news writing, editorials, and correspondence that filled the pages of the North Star , along with the institutional and material features of the newspaper, this article recovers an African American perspective on the events of 1848. In the pages of Douglass's newspaper, the 1848 revolutions encompassed not just the uprisings in Europe but also the struggles for freedom occurring throughout the Atlantic world. Ultimately, the North…
"Americans as They Really Are"
"Americans as They Really Are": The Colored American and the Illustratation of Natational Identity Benjamin Fagan (bio) On January 7, 1837, a new journal appeared on the streets of New York City. Entitled the Weekly Advocate, the newspaper explained in its masthead that it was "Established for, and Devoted to the Moral, Mental, and Political Improvement of the People of Color." On the back page of that inaugural issue appeared the first installme…
Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading
Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading Benjamin Fagan My contribution to this forum explores how we might apply some of the insights and priorities of scholars working in early African American literary studies to the study of early American print cultures. Literary historians such as Carla L. Peterson, Elizabeth McHenry, and Joycelyn Moody remind us not only that communities of black writers, orators, editors, and readers produced books…
"Americans as They Really Are"
"Americans as They Really Are": The Colored American and the Illustratation of Natational Identity Benjamin Fagan (bio) On January 7, 1837, a new journal appeared on the streets of New York City. Entitled the Weekly Advocate, the newspaper explained in its masthead that it was "Established for, and Devoted to the Moral, Mental, and Political Improvement of the People of Color." On the back page of that inaugural issue appeared the first installme…
The North Star and the Atlantic 1848
Focusing on the news writing, editorials, and correspondence that filled the pages of the North Star , along with the institutional and material features of the newspaper, this article recovers an African American perspective on the events of 1848. In the pages of Douglass's newspaper, the 1848 revolutions encompassed not just the uprisings in Europe but also the struggles for freedom occurring throughout the Atlantic world. Ultimately, the North…
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading
Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading Benjamin Fagan My contribution to this forum explores how we might apply some of the insights and priorities of scholars working in early African American literary studies to the study of early American print cultures. Literary historians such as Carla L. Peterson, Elizabeth McHenry, and Joycelyn Moody remind us not only that communities of black writers, orators, editors, and readers produced books…
African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
This volume charts the ways in which African American literature fosters transitions between material cultures and contexts from 1830 to 1850, and showcases work that explores how African American literature and lived experiences shaped one another. Chapters focus on the interplay between pivotal political and social events, including emancipation in the West Indies, the Irish Famine, and the Fugitive Slave Act, and key African American cultural …
African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850
Journalism
This chapter explores the four periodicals edited by Frederick Douglass. Made possible through the contributions of various and sundry staff members and filled with pieces from a diverse range of writers, Douglass’s newspapers were collaborative productions that he not only contributed to as a writer but, more centrally, oversaw as an editor. Douglass’s newspapers were wide-ranging, diverse publications that resist any easy summary. But consideri…
Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Newspaper (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works)