03997nam 2200829 a 450 991077909910332120200520144314.01-283-43450-497866134345001-60473-549-Xheb40104(CKB)2550000000082396(EBL)840363(OCoLC)774384382(SSID)ssj0000598656(PQKBManifestationID)11410526(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000598656(PQKBWorkID)10590964(PQKB)11243901(MiAaPQ)EBC840363(OCoLC)798298197(MdBmJHUP)muse13587(Au-PeEL)EBL840363(CaPaEBR)ebr10529421(CaONFJC)MIL343450(dli)heb40104.0001.001(MiU)MIU401040001001(EXLCZ)99255000000008239620050713d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBlack writers, white publishers[electronic resource] marketplace politics in twentieth-century African American literature /John K. Young1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippi20061 online resource (241 p.)Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998).1-57806-846-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 marketingAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsPublishingHistory20th centuryLiterature publishingPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAuthors and publishersUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature publishingUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryAfrican Americans in literatureRace in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureAfrican American authorsPublishingHistoryLiterature publishingPolitical aspectsHistoryPolitics and literatureHistoryAuthors and publishersHistoryLiterature publishingHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual lifeAfrican Americans in literature.Race in literature.810.9/896073Young John K(John Kevin),1968-1185890MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779099103321Black writers, white publishers3688420UNINA