Publishing Blackness Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 / John K. Young, George B. Hutchinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Hutchinson, George B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

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.

Contents:

The Brief Wondrous Life of the Anglo-African Magazine; or, Antebellum African American Editorial Practice and Its Afterlives / Ivy G. Wilson Wilson, Ivy G. 18

Representing African American Literature; or, Tradition against the Individual Talent / George Hutchinson Hutchinson, George 39

"Quite as human as it is Negro": Subpersons and Textual Property in Native Son and Black Boy / John K. Young Young, John K. 67

The Colors of Modernism: Publishing African Americans, Jews, and Irish in the 1920s / George Bornstein Bornstein, George 93

More than McKay and Guillén: The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontemps's The Poetry of the Negro (1949) / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe 108

Editorial Federalism: The Hoover Raids, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Origins of FBI Literary Surveillance / William J. Maxwell Maxwell, William J. 136

Loosening the Straightjacket: Rethinking Racial Representation in African American Anthologies / Gene Andrew Jarrett Jarrett, Gene Andrew 160

"Let the World Be a Black Poem": Some Problems of Recollecting and Editing Black Arts Texts / James W. Smethurst Smethurst, James W. 175

Textual Productions of Black Aesthetics Unbound / Margo Natalie Crawford Crawford, Margo Natalie 188.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100873

ISBN:

9780472118632