Word by Word
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| Author | Christopher Hager |
|---|---|
| Subject | United States Civil War history, African-American literary criticism |
| Published | 2013 (Harvard University Press)[1] |
| Pages | 328[1] |
| ISBN | 978-0-674-05986-3 [2] |
Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing is a 2013 history book and analysis of writings by American slaves and former slaves. It was written by Christopher Hager and published by Harvard University Press.
Reception
The book received the 2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University).[3]
See also
References
Sources
- "2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize – Trinity College Professor Wins the Sixteenth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. n.d. Archived from the original on February 14, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
- Bly, Antonio T. (2013). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". African American Review. 46 (2/3): 546–547. doi:10.1353/afa.2013.0066. ISSN 1062-4783.
- Davis, Thomas J. (2013). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Library Journal. 138 (4): 84. ISSN 0363-0277. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- Dean, Janet (June 2014). ""Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911/Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing/Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere...". American Literature. 86 (2): 397–400. doi:10.1215/00029831-2647054. ISSN 0002-9831.
- Fitzgerald, Michael W. (March 2014). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Journal of American History. 100 (4): 1212–1213. doi:10.1093/jahist/jau053. ISSN 0021-8723.
- Follett, Richard (July 4, 2013). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing: Books". Times Higher Education (2108): 52–53. ISSN 0049-3929. Archived from the original on February 14, 2016.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Freeburg, Christopher (January 2015). "Chasing Slavery's Ghost". American Literary History. 27 (1): 102–113. doi:10.1093/alh/aju067. ISSN 0896-7148.
- Green, T. T.1 (August 2013). "Word by word: emancipation and the act of writing". Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 50 (12): 2228. ISSN 0009-4978.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Newman, Judie (February 2014). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Journal of American Studies. 48 (1): 333–334. doi:10.1017/S0021875813002077. ISSN 1469-5154.
- Sinha, Manisha (December 2013). "The Complicated Histories of Emancipation: State of the Field at 150". Reviews in American History. 41 (4): 665–671. doi:10.1353/rah.2013.0111. ISSN 0048-7511. ProQuest 1470071724.
- Sternhell, Yael A. (November 2014). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Journal of Southern History. 80 (4): 997–998. ISSN 0022-4642. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- "WORD BY WORD Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Kirkus Reviews. 80 (23): 230. 2012. ISSN 1948-7428. Archived from the original on February 14, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Publishers Weekly. 259 (50): 51. December 10, 2012. ISSN 0000-0019. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- "American Literature". Reference & Research Book News. 28 (3): 174–177. June 2013. ISSN 0887-3763. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- Kevin Eagan, "Interview with Christopher Hager, Author of Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing", Critical Margins, August 14, 2013.
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