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Publishing Blackness : Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 /

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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 contest...

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Other Authors: Young, John K. (John Kevin), 1968- (Editor), Hutchinson, George, 1953- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature publishing > Political aspects.
Criticism, Textual.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle.
Litterature > Édition > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Literature publishing > Political aspects > United States > History.
American literature > African American authors > Publishing > History.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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