RZ27980521

Engaging Black Women's Archives: Gloria Naylor and Twentieth-Century Literary History.

This project proposes to produce an edited collection of scholarly essays on archival materials relevant to Naylor's published novels, a second manuscript of criticism focused on previously unpublished works found in the archives, and a series of public-facing essays that attend to the collected papers and unpublished material of Gloria Naylor, one of the most widely-read authors at the vanguard of contemporary letters.

With Naylor's substantial archives as our focus, we aim to create a robust model for activating Black women's literary archives through interinstitutional, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational collaboration aligned with Black feminist practices.

Through ground-breaking academic and public-facing scholarship, this project communicates the value of archival research for opening up new avenues for understanding Black women writers' intellectual and literary history of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.

Lehigh University

45.161 - Promotion of the Humanities Research

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Pennsylvania United States

State-Wide

None

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 09/30/22 to 09/30/23 and the total obligations have increased 79% from $50,000 to $89,479.