Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1830–1850
- Introduction
- Part I Local Transitions
- Chapter 1 Antebellum Literary Societies, Polite Learning, and Traditions of Modernity
- Chapter 2 “By a Young Lady of Color”
- Chapter 3 The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans
- Chapter 4 Gentility, Resistance, and Nat Turner’s Rebellion in Early African American Poetry
- Part II National Transitions
- Part III Transnational Transitions
- Index
Chapter 3 - The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans
from Part I - Local Transitions
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Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1830–1850
- Introduction
- Part I Local Transitions
- Chapter 1 Antebellum Literary Societies, Polite Learning, and Traditions of Modernity
- Chapter 2 “By a Young Lady of Color”
- Chapter 3 The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans
- Chapter 4 Gentility, Resistance, and Nat Turner’s Rebellion in Early African American Poetry
- Part II National Transitions
- Part III Transnational Transitions
- Index
Summary
New Orleans provides the context for this chapter’s reading of Les Cenelles in relation to the concerns of the city’s community of francophone free people of color. As this chapter shows, the 1845 collection of poetry not only emerged from discussions over how to provide an education to the city’s Black francophone children, but also articulated a specific theory of education that would later find an institutional home in the city’s first school for free children of color.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850 , pp. 63 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021