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• The Textual Effects of David Walker's Appeal: Print-Based Activism against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829–1851 by Marcy J. Dinius
• Sofia Meadows-Muriel (bio) and Britt Rusert (bio)

Marcy Dinius's The Textual Effects of David Walker's Appeal is a deeply researched study of the many ways that Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829; 1830) influenced Black and Indigenous writers from the 1830s to the 1850s. While scholars have long studied the [End Page 768] rippling political effects of Walker's incendiary publication, including the passage of antiliteracy laws and the censoring of abolitionist periodicals in southern states, this is the first study to focus on the works of print by writers of color who were directly influenced by Walker's manifesto, from inspiring specific choices in typography and format to copying sections of the Appeal verbatim. This book-length monograph builds on and deepens the formative contributions Dinius made in her widely cited and taught essay "'Look!! Look!!! Look at This!!!!': The Radical Typography of David Walker's Appeal" (PMLA, vol. 126, no. 1, 2011, pp. 55–72).

Dinius distinguishes her work from earlier historical studies like Peter Hinks's To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance (Pennsylvania State UP, 1996) by tracing the Appeal's role in what she calls "print-based activism" in the antebellum period. She is particularly interested in how Walker's pamphlet was activated by writer-activists again and again in the decades following its initial publication in 1829. The Textual Effects of David Walker's Appeal, in this way, takes shape as a (literary) history of the many "discursive possibilities produced by Walker" (197) over time and space. Dinius also expands on the influential work of Elizabeth McHenry, who, in Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New York UP, 2002), showed Walker's impact not solely on Black nationalist history but within the larger fight for racial justice and its relationship to a growing print and publication sphere. Dinius chronicles the local, regional, and international influence David Walker had on Black and Indigenous activists and how he inspired the political pamphlets and tracts of Maria Stewart, William Apes, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, Paola Brown, and W. E. B Du Bois. In revising, incorporating, and adapting Walker's pamphlet, each of these authors extended the reach of the Appeal's initial audiences.

Dinius provides a new perspective into Walker's stylistic choices as a writer and print cultivator who deeply considered the infrastructural conditions that affected Black readership. Seeing Walker's call for violent revolution as only one of a number of different rhetorical strategies in his pamphlet, she positions Walker as a writer who was also thinking about how chattel slavery disrupted both free and enslaved people's ability to achieve liberation and develop their education and religious practices. [End Page 769] Each of the six authors in this study used practices of imitation and revision to show solidarity, to build trust between racial groups and political parties, or to bring Walker's message to a new audience.

Dinius's book also expands evangelical history by focusing on Christian print activism. Many of the writers here practiced Methodism and looked to Methodism's textual practices and performance cultures to further develop Walker's initial revolutionary plea. This common faith between activists allows Dinius to find similar thematic decisions across these works and to bring writer-preachers like Maria Stewart and William Apes into conversation with one another. For example, providing a close reading of Stew-art's 1831 pamphlet, Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, Dinius shows how Stewart subtly, but effectively, challenged the patriarchal ideals and gendered limitation of Walker's Appeal. Stewart, a comrade of David Walker's and another Boston activist, used the format of the politico-religious pamphlet to encourage free Black women to join her in the fight against racial and gender discrimination and to...

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• 大卫·沃克呼吁的文本效果：基于印刷品的反对奴隶制、种族主义和歧视的行动主义，1829-1851 年作者：Marcy J. Dinius
• 索菲亚·梅多斯-穆里尔 (Sofia Meadows-Muriel)（简介）和布里特·鲁瑟特 (Britt Rusert)（简介）

马西·迪尼厄斯（Marcy Dinius）的《大卫·沃克呼吁的文本效果》深入研究了沃克对世界有色公民的呼吁（1829；1830）对 1830 年代至 1850 年代黑人和土著作家的影响。虽然学者们长期以来一直在研究沃克煽动性出版物的政治影响，包括反扫盲法的通过和南部各州对废奴主义期刊的审查，但这是第一项关注美国作家印刷作品的研究。颜色谁直接受到沃克宣言的影响，从启发排版和格式的具体选择到逐字复制呼吁的部分。这本长达一本书的专着以迪纽斯在她被广泛引用和教学的文章“‘看！！看！！！看这个！！！’：大卫·沃克呼吁的激进印刷术” （PMLA，第 126 卷，第 1 期，2011 年，第 55-72 页）。

迪纽斯通过追踪呼吁在她所谓的“基于印刷的激进主义”中的作用，将她的作品与彼得·欣克斯的《唤醒我受苦的弟兄：大卫·沃克和战前奴隶抵抗问题》（宾夕法尼亚州立大学，1996年）等早期历史研究区分开来。在战前时期。她对沃克的小册子在 1829 年首次出版后的几十年里如何一次又一次地被作家活动家激活特别感兴趣。通过这种方式，《大卫·沃克呼吁的文本效果》形成了许多人的（文学）历史。 “沃克产生的话语可能性”（197）跨越时间和空间。迪纽斯还扩展了伊丽莎白·麦克亨利的影响力著作，伊丽莎白·麦克亨利在《被遗忘的读者：恢复非裔美国文学协会失落的历史》（New York UP，2002）一书中展示了沃克不仅对黑人民族主义历史产生了影响，而且在更大的种族斗争中产生了影响。正义及其与不断发展的印刷和出版领域的关系。迪纽斯记录了大卫·沃克对黑人和原住民活动家在当地、区域和国际上的影响，以及他如何启发玛丽亚·斯图尔特、威廉·阿普斯、威廉·保罗·奎恩、亨利·高地·加内特、保拉·布朗和 WE B 杜波依斯等人撰写政治小册子和小册子。通过修改、合并和改编沃克的小册子，这些作者中的每一位都扩大了呼吁的最初受众范围。

迪纽斯为沃克作为一名作家和印刷品培育者的文体选择提供了一个新的视角，他深入思考了影响黑人读者的基础设施条件。她认为沃克对暴力革命的呼吁只是其小册子中众多不同修辞策略之一，因此她将沃克定位为一位作家，他也在思考动产奴隶制如何扰乱自由人和被奴役者实现解放和发展教育和宗教的能力。做法。[完第769页]这项研究中的六位作者中的每一位都使用模仿和修改的做法来表现团结，在种族群体和政党之间建立信任，或者将沃克的信息传达给新的受众。

迪纽斯的书还通过关注基督教印刷活动主义来扩展福音派历史。这里的许多作家都信奉卫理公会，并着眼于卫理公会的文本实践和表演文化，以进一步发展沃克最初的革命性诉求。活动家之间的这种共同信念使迪纽斯能够在这些作品中找到类似的主题决定，并让玛丽亚·斯图尔特和威廉·阿佩斯等作家兼传教士相互对话。例如，迪纽斯仔细阅读了斯图尔特 1831 年出版的小册子《宗教与道德的纯粹原则》，展示了斯图尔特如何巧妙而有效地挑战了父权制理想和沃克呼吁中的性别限制。大卫·沃克的同志和另一位波士顿活动家斯图尔特利用政治宗教小册子的形式鼓励自由黑人妇女与她一起反对种族和性别歧视，并……