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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchinson, George.

Contributor:

Young, John K. (John Kevin), 1968- editor of compilation.

Hutchinson, George, 1953- editor of compilation.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Editorial theory and literary criticism.

Editorial theory and literary criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Criticism, Textual.

American literature--African American authors--Publishing--History.

Literature publishing--Political aspects--United States--History.

Literature publishing.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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.

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 Nwankwo

Editorial 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 Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-90099-4

0-472-02892-8

1-299-15988-5

OCLC:

829243628

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access