TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young,John K.
AU  - Hutchinson,George
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Publishing blackness: textual constructions of race since 1850 
T2  - Editorial theory and literary criticism
SN  - 9780472028924
AV  - PS153.N5 P83 2012
U1  - 810.9/896073 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Literature publishing
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Publishing
KW  - Criticism, Textual
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - " 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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472028924/
ER  -