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Size | 7.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1000 items) |
Abstract | Literary scholar and critic and African American intellectual Trudier Harris is best known for her scholarship on major African American literary figures including Toni Morrison and James Baldwin and for her studies of southern African American identity and experience. Annotated drafts of her major published works including From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (1982), Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison (1993), Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature (2001), Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South (2003), and The Scary Mason-Dixon Line : African American writers and the South (2009), comprise the bulk of the collection. Other materials are editorial files for the Dictionary of Literary Biography series on Black authors, committee files for the Black Faculty-Staff Caucus and the Black Cultural Center planning group, email correspondence with her "Dreamers" cohort of students, and other correspondence, clippings, printed items, notes, lectures, photographs, and event posters pertaining to her publications, her work as distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and scholarly and literary conferences, particularly "Rescuing the Past...Securing the Future: Black Scholars and Scholarship" and the George Moses Horton Society. |
Creator | Harris, Trudier. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Encoded by: Laura Smith
Processed by: Nicole Cvjetnicanin and Rebecca Stubbs, May 2019; Dan Hockstein and Nancy Kaiser, May 2022.
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Literary scholar and critic and African American intellectual Trudier Harris is best known for her scholarship on major African American literary figures including Toni Morrison and James Baldwin and for her studies of southern African American identity and experience. From 1979 to 2009, Harris was the J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught courses in African American literature and folklore.
Back to TopAnnotated drafts of Trudier Harris's major published works, including From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (1982), Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison (1993), Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature (2001), Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South (2003), and The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American writers and the South (2009), comprise the bulk of the collection. Other materials are editorial files for the Dictionary of Literary Biography series on Black authors, committee files for the Black Faculty-Staff Caucus and the Black Cultural Center planning group, email correspondence with her "Dreamers" cohort of students, and other correspondence, clippings, printed items, notes, lectures, photographs, and event posters pertaining to her publications, her work as distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and scholarly and literary conferences, particularly "Rescuing the Past...Securing the Future: Black Scholars and Scholarship" and the George Moses Horton Society.
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Black Cultural Center, 1984-1988Contains correspondence, research, and proposals relevant to the UNC Black Cultural Center, for which Harris was on the Planning Committee. |
Folder 2 |
Black Faculty-Staff Caucus, 1986-1988Contains correspondence, membership directories, financial statements, research, and meeting notes related to the Black Faculty-Staff Caucus, of which Harris was a member, as well as a pamphlet created by the Caucus and intended for Black Student Movement members |
Folder 3-21
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Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) documentation, 1981-1988Contains correspondence with and regarding Thadious M. Davis, the Djerassi Foundation artist residency, and Harris's editorial role for the DLB's Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance, Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940, Afro-American writers, 1940-1955, Afro-American Poets After 1955, Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955, and Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers. |
Folder 22 |
Correspondence on assignments |
Folder 23 |
College Language Association (CLA), circa 1980Contains correspondence, membership directories, financial statements, research, and meeting notes related to Harris's membership in the College Language Association. |
Folder 24 |
Jackson Fund, circa 1992Contains correspondence and financial statements related to the Blyden and Roberta Jackson Fellowship. |
Folder 25-26
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Jackson Conference, circa 1980Contains materials related to the "Restoring the Past...Securing the Future" conference on Black scholars and scholarship, of which Harris and Thadious Davis were co-directors. |
Folder 27 |
George Moses Horton, circa 1998-2000Contains materials related to Harris's participation in the George Moses Horton Society, including issues of "The Horton Herald." |
Photograph Album PA-5565/1 |
George Moses Horton, 3-5 April 1998Photograph album documenting the premier George Moses Horton Society Poetry Conference. Photographs taken by Felecia Piggott McMillan. |
Folder 28-31
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Peppers Fund Award, 1987-1988, 1999Correspondence and donation records relating to the establishment of the Wallace Ray Peppers Award in Performance of African and African-American Literature. Peppers was a professor of speech communication at UNC Chapel Hill until his death in May 1987. |
Folder 32 |
Ohio State University, 1994Correspondence and publicity relating to Harris receiving a College of Humanities Alumni Award of Distinction. |
Folder 33 |
Readers' Reports, 2008The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South. |
Folder 34-37
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Black Scholars and Scholarship Conference, 1981"Rescuing the Past…Securing the Future: Black Scholars and Scholarship Conference," was organized in honor of the retirement of Blyden Jackson, the first Black faculty member to receive the rank of full professor at UNC Chapel Hill. Materials include correspondence, a program, conference checks, and logistics planning for attendees and exhibitors. |
Folder 38 |
Palgrave, 2001Author contract, "Handbook for Authors." |
Folder 39 |
Biographical material, 1979, 1985Newspaper clipping announcing Harris's faculty appointment at UNC Chapel Hill; "Afro-American Traditions in American Literature" by Ann F. Stafford in Endeavors and "From Poverty to Ph.D.: Trudier Harris" by Tonya V. Smith. |
Folder 40 |
Biographical material, 1986-1996Clippings. |
Folder 41 |
Walker Volume: G. K. Hall, 1986Correspondence regarding Critical Essays on Alice Walker. |
Folder 42 |
Southern Lit Lecture, 1986"What's Southern about Southern Literature" lecture and notes. |
Folder 43 |
Distinguished Scholar, 2004Email correspondence, notes, essays, and other materials relating to Program in the Humanities and Human Values seminar on "African American Literature, the South, and the Revelations of Scholarship." |
Folder 44 |
Adams Lecture, 2007"Failed, Forgotten, Forsaken: Christianity in Contemporary African American Literature." |
Folder 45 |
Sula lecture, 1987, 1989 |
Folder 46 |
Ohio State University Lecture: "Toni Morrison's Literary Folklore," 1988 |
Folder 47 |
Baldwin, 1982-1984Harris's notes on essays and other writings on Baldwin. |
Folder 48 |
Book Reviews by Harris, 1984-1985 |
Folder 49 |
The Color Purple, 1984, 1986Essays by Harris on the novel and the movie. |
Folder 50 |
"Gathering" (Lee Greene), 2005Correspondence and a proposal relating to "The Gathering: A Symposium on African American Literature and Literary Scholarship," a homecoming for present and former faculty, students, and other scholars affiliated with the African American literature program at UNC Chapel Hill since 1969. |
Folder 51-53
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Bibliographic fileIndex cards with bibliographic information (approcimately 100 cards). |
Folder 55-56
Folder 55Folder 56 |
Ritualized ViolenceNotes, writings, and readings. |
Folder 57 |
Printed material, 1979, 1998off our backs: a women's news journal: special issue on: racism and sexism Black Scholars and Scholarship Conference program and letterhead. Clipping with announcement of the hiring of Trudier Harris. North Carolina Literary Festival insert in the Independent. Review of Toni Morrison's Paradise by Harris. |
Folder 58-60
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From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black Anerican Literature, 1982 |
Folder 61-64
Folder 61Folder 62Folder 63Folder 64 |
Exorcizing Blackness, 1984 |
Folder 65 |
Morrison |
Folder 66 |
Introduction, 1990Chapter 1 draft. |
Folder 67 |
The Bluest Eye, 1990Chapter 2 draft. |
Folder 68 |
Sula, 1990Chapter 3 draft. |
Folder 69 |
Song of Solomon, 1985, 1988, 1988Chapter 4 draft. |
Folder 70 |
Tar Baby, 1989 |
Folder 71 |
Beloved, 1987, 1989Correspondence, corrections for Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison. |
Folder 72-79
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Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison, 1991 |
Folder 80-86
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Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature, 2001Various drafts, 1997, 1999 |
Folder 87-94
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Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature, 2001Draft, 1999; draft, 3 April 2001; page proof copy, 1 August 2001; index copy |
Folder 95-104
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South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature, 2002Drafts 2001; first proof; correspondence with publisher. |
Folder 105-107
Folder 105Folder 106Folder 107 |
Summer Snow: Reflections on Being Black and Southern, 2003Draft, 2001; publicity for author events. |
Folder 108-114
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Summer Snow: Reflections on Being Black and Southern, 2003Drafts, 2001-2002; correspondence with publisher; proof corrections. |
Folder 115-132
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The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South, 2009Drafts, 2005, 2007, 2008; page proofs; correspondence with the publisher. |
Folder 133-134
Folder 133Folder 134 |
"Dreamers," 2001-2005, 2008Email correspondence with a group of students in Harris's first year seminar who remained together as a cohort for social activity and support until they graduated. |
Folder 135 |
Thank you letters, 1986Letters from students at Githen Middle School in Durham, N.C., thanking Harris for visiting their class to teach about the oral tradition in Black literature and history. |
Folder 136 |
Thank you letters, 1989-2002Letters from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students. |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5565/1 |
Posters, certificates, and other papers |