ABSTRACT

This essay examines the print strategies of Britain’s first Black editor, S. J. Celestine Edwards (1857?–1894), during his tenure at the antiracist journal, Fraternity. I show how Edwards capitalized on “scissors-and-paste” methods to articulate connections between minoritizing processes in British colonies and the US, thus formulating a theory of Anglo-Saxonism as a power relation reproduced across empires. Via the pages of Fraternity, Edwards reassembled this inter-imperial formation as an antiracist one, relying on reprints from the African American and British colonial press. Building on Caroline Bressey, I argue that Edwards extended the journal’s function as a “relay station” for the colonial and African American press to his readers, whom he charged with memorizing and ventriloquizing Fraternity, and hailed as walking, talking issues of his paper. His directives to recirculate already reprinted texts inducted readers into an imagined community whose membership refracted across multiple publications rather than centered on one.

摘要

本文考察了英国第一位黑人编辑 SJ Celestine Edwards（1857 年？–1894 年）在反种族主义杂志《兄弟会》任职期间的印刷策略。我展示了爱德华兹如何利用“剪刀加粘贴”的方法来阐明英国殖民地和美国的少数民族化进程之间的联系，从而将盎格鲁-撒克逊主义的理论表述为跨帝国复制的权力关系。通过兄弟会的页面, 爱德华兹依靠非裔美国人和英国殖民媒体的重印，将这种跨帝国的组织重新组合为反种族主义的组织。在 Caroline Bressey 的基础上，我认为爱德华兹将期刊作为殖民地和非裔美国媒体的“中继站”的功能扩展到他的读者，他负责记住和口语化兄弟会，并被誉为他的论文的行走和谈话问题。他对已重印文本进行再循环的指令将读者引导到一个想象中的社区，该社区的成员反映在多个出版物中，而不是集中在一个出版物上。