To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship

“From the title to the final words of her coda, Elizabeth McHenry provokes, persuades, and prods readers to apply thought to the knowledge presented in this book. It is a nuanced and wise offering of immaculate research and righteous rumination to anyone—whether the casual browser who never once thought about the topic or the most sophisticated scholar of Black culture generally and print culture particularly.” — Frances Smith Foster, author of Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America