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The Digital Afterlife of Nineteenth-Century Black Writing: Response to Genealogies of Black Modernity
- American Literary History
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 32, Number 4, Winter 2020
- pp. 797-803
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Abstract:
This response to the forum on the nineteenth-century genealogies of Black modernity explores how nineteenth-century racial and publication contexts continue to shape the digital circulation and digital afterlife of authors. A born-digital publication of a work by George Moses Horton reveals how nineteenth-century racial paratexts re-emerge in metadata and algorithmic capitalism.