Black writers, white publishers : marketplace politics in twentieth-century African American literature / John K. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, John K. (John Kevin), 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--Publishing--History--20th century.

Literature publishing--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Literature publishing.

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Authors and publishers--United States--History--20th century.

Authors and publishers.

Literature publishing--United States--History--20th century.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jean Toomer's Cane was advertised as ""a book about Negroes by a Negro,"" despite his request not to promote the book along such racial lines. Nella Larsen switched the title of her second novel from Nig to Passing, because an editor felt the original title ""might be too inflammatory."" In order to publish his first novel as a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection Richard Wright deleted a scene in Native Son depicting Bigger Thomas masturbating. Toni Morrison changed the last word of Beloved at her editor's request and switched the title of Paradise from War to allay her publisher's marketing

Contents:

Passing (on) textual history : the ends of Nella Larsen's Passing

Black page, white copyright : the politics of print in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo

Gwendolyn Brooks's bibliographical Blackness

Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and postmodern, popular audiences

Juneteenth as a textual and racial fragment.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-43450-4

9786613434500

1-60473-549-X

OCLC:

774384382

Publisher Number:

heb40104 hdl