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Publications [#291826] of Jasmine N. Cobb

Essays, Articles, Chapters in Books

  1. Cobb, JN, "forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality, MELUS, vol. 40 no. 3 (September, 2015), pp. 28-46, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0163-755X [doi]
    (last updated on 2024/03/28)

    Abstract:
    Friendship albums, blank volumes with decorative covers, emerged around 1825 as part of a growing market of women's print culture. Sentimentalism, the chief vocabulary of the friendship album genre, targeted white women consumers and largely ignored black women. However, freeborn African Americans rigorously engaged sentimental literature in the pages of the friendship album, recasting this artifact as a specimen of antebellum black print culture. This essay explores the production of African American friendship albums and examines artistic and literary contributions by freeborn black women writers.


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