Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature

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335 Notes Notes to Chapter 1 1. Joseph Wittreich, Why Milton Matters (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 186. 2. Ibid., 186. 3. Mark R. Kelley, Michael Lieb, and John T. Shawcross, eds., “Introduction,” Milton and the Grounds of Contention (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2003), 1. 4. Katherine McKittrick, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), xxv. 5. Ibid., xxv–xxvi. 6. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, ed. Frank Shuffelton (New York: Penguin, 1999), 147. 7. John C. Shields, Phillis Wheatley’s Poetics of Liberation (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008), 1. 8. Henry Louis Gates Jr., “Foreword: In Her Own Write,” Complete PoemsofFrancesE.W.Harper(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1988),x. 9. Ibid., xxiv. 10. Frances Smith Foster, Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 2. 11. Mary Nyquist and Margaret W. Ferguson, eds., “Preface,” in Re-membering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions (New York: Methuen, 1987), xii. 12. Henry B. Wonham, ed., introduction to Criticism and the Color Line (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996), 6. 13. Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of AfroAmerican Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 118. 14. Frances Smith Foster, ed., introduction to Minnie’s Sacrifice; Sowing and Reaping; Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E. W. Harper (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994), xxiii. 15. Ibid., xxiii. 336 Notes to Pages 8–16 16. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “What Is a Minor Literature?,” in Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, ed. Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West, 59–69 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), 63, 61. 17. Carolivia Herron, “Milton and Afro-American Literature,” in Nyquist and Ferguson, Re-membering Milton, 280. 18. Ibid., 280. 19. Wonham, “Introduction,” 6. 20. Gates, The Signifying Monkey, 122. 21. Aldon L. Nielsen, Writing between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 24. 22. Neil Forsyth, The Satanic Epic (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), 17. 23. Ibid., 17. 24. Danielle A. St. Hilaire, Satan’s Poetry: Fallenness and Poetic Tradition in “Paradise Lost” (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2012), 19. 25. Ibid., 107. 26. Ibid., 107. 27. Nyquist and Ferguson, “Preface,” xii. 28. Ibid., xiii. 29. Gregory Machacek, Milton and Homer: “Written to Aftertimes” (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2011), 96. 30. Ibid., 96. 31. Sylvia Wynter, “Beyond Miranda’s Meanings: Un/Silencing the ‘Demonic Ground’ of Caliban’s Woman,” in Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990), 364. 32. Machacek, Milton and Homer, 120. 33. Ibid., 8. 34. Ibid., 28. 35. Ibid., 28. 36. Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1941), 40. 37. Ibid., 40. 38. Nielsen, Writing between the Lines, 5. 39. Machacek, Milton and Homer, 120. 40. Ibid., 102. 41. Ibid., 102. 42. John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government, in The Riverside Milton, ed. Roy Flannagan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 923. 43. Nielsen, Writing between the Lines, 3. 44. J. B. Savage, “Freedom and Necessity in Paradise Lost,” ELH 44, no. 2 (1977): 286. 45. Ibid., 286. Notes to Pages 17–23 337 46. Henry Louis Gates Jr., “Preface to Blackness,” in African American Literary Theory: A Reader, ed. Winston Napier (1979; repr., New York: New York University Press, 2000), 163. 47. Henry Louis Gates Jr., “James Gronniosaw and the Trope of the Talking Book,” in African American Autobiography, ed. William L. Andrews (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993), 11, 12. 48. Ibid., 12. 49. John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. Scott Elledge, 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), 1.26; hereafter cited in the text. 50. Henry H. Mitchell, Black Preaching: The Recovery of a Powerful Art (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990), 56. 51. Ibid., 56. 52. St. Hilaire, Satan’s Poetry, 139. 53. Ibid., 139. 54. Ibid., 17, 139. 55. Allen Dwight Callahan, The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), xi. 56. Toni Morrison, “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The AfroAmerican Presence in American Literature,” in Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies, ed. Henry B. Wonham (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996), 23. 57. Ibid., 23. 58. Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (New York: Vintage Books...