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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779099103321

Autore

Young John K (John Kevin), <1968->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2006

ISBN

1-283-43450-4

9786613434500

1-60473-549-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

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

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

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

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

Literature publishing - United States - History - 20th century

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

African Americans in literature

Race in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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