Building Bibliographically: A Review of To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry

Document Type

Book Review

Authors

Susanna Ashton, Clemson UniversityFollow

Author Biography

Susanna Ashton is a professor of English at Clemson University. Her research explores notions of authentication and identity in narratives of slavery and freedom. For 2021–22, she was a W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Her latest book is A Plausible Man: The Untold Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin (New York: New Press, 2024).

Abstract

To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 296. $28.95 cloth.

Recommended Citation

Ashton, Susanna (2023) "Building Bibliographically: A Review of To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry," Criticism: Vol. 65: Iss. 2, Article 5.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vol65/iss2/5