Description
This workshop approaches premodern book history through a Black feminist lens and asks participants to consider what Black feminist book history looks like in theory and in practice. In it, we will think about the types of questions that scholars including Kim F. Hall and Imtiaz Habib bring to traditional practice in book history. We will also consider how Saidiya Hartman’s work on archives can introduce larger questions about how book historians don’t consider race and perhaps why they should. Using items from the Newberry’s collections, we will discuss topics such as material philology, codicology, and censorship.
Learn more about the instructors: B.K. Adams and Carissa Harris.