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Publishing blackness : textual constructions of race since 1850 / George Hutchinson and John Young, editiors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Editorial theory and literary criticismPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472028924
  • 0472028928
  • 9780472118632
  • 0472118633
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Publishing blackness.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/896073 23
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 P83 2012eb
Other classification:
  • LIT004040
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction, George Hutchinson and John K. Young -- The Brief Wondrous Life of the Anglo-African Magazine; or, Antebellum African American Editorial Practice and Its Afterlives, Ivy G. Wilson -- Representing African American Literature; or, Tradition against the Individual Talent, George Hutchinson -- “Quite as human as it is Negro�: Subpersons and Textual Property in Native Son and Black Boy, John K. Young -- The Colors of Modernism: Publishing African Americans, Jews, and Irish in the 1920s, George Bornstein
More than McKay and Guillén: The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontemps�s The Poetry of the Negro (1949), Ifeoma Kiddoe NwankwoEditorial Federalism: The Hoover Raids, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Origins of FBI Literary Surveillance, William J. Maxwell -- Loosening the Straightjacket: Rethinking Racial Representation in African American Anthologies, Gene Andrew Jarrett -- “Let the World Be a Black Poem�: Some Problems of Recollecting and Editing Black Arts Texts, James W. Smethurst -- Textual Productions of Black Aesthetics Unbound, Margo Natalie Crawford
Select BibliographyContributors -- Index
Summary: "From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for cultural power inherent in literary production and distribution. Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. An energetic exploration of the struggles and complexities of African American print culture, this collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. Publishing Blackness aims to project African Americanist scholarship into the discourse of textual scholarship, provoking further work in a vital area of literary study"-- Provided by publisher
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"From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for cultural power inherent in literary production and distribution. Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. An energetic exploration of the struggles and complexities of African American print culture, this collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. Publishing Blackness aims to project African Americanist scholarship into the discourse of textual scholarship, provoking further work in a vital area of literary study"-- Provided by publisher

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Contents -- Introduction, George Hutchinson and John K. Young -- The Brief Wondrous Life of the Anglo-African Magazine; or, Antebellum African American Editorial Practice and Its Afterlives, Ivy G. Wilson -- Representing African American Literature; or, Tradition against the Individual Talent, George Hutchinson -- “Quite as human as it is Negro�: Subpersons and Textual Property in Native Son and Black Boy, John K. Young -- The Colors of Modernism: Publishing African Americans, Jews, and Irish in the 1920s, George Bornstein

More than McKay and Guillén: The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontemps�s The Poetry of the Negro (1949), Ifeoma Kiddoe NwankwoEditorial Federalism: The Hoover Raids, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Origins of FBI Literary Surveillance, William J. Maxwell -- Loosening the Straightjacket: Rethinking Racial Representation in African American Anthologies, Gene Andrew Jarrett -- “Let the World Be a Black Poem�: Some Problems of Recollecting and Editing Black Arts Texts, James W. Smethurst -- Textual Productions of Black Aesthetics Unbound, Margo Natalie Crawford

Select BibliographyContributors -- Index

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