TY - BOOK ID - 32822125 TI - Publishing blackness : textual constructions of race since 1850 AU - Young, John K. AU - Hutchinson, George AU - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) PY - 2013 SN - 0472028928 1299159885 0472900994 0472118633 9780472900992 9780472028924 9781299159884 PB - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Criticism, Textual. KW - Literature publishing KW - African Americans KW - African Americans in literature. KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - Publishing KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - Intellectual life. KW - Literary publishing KW - Literature KW - English literature KW - Textual criticism KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. KW - Publishers and publishing KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Editing KW - African American intellectuals KW - Epic poetry, Greek Criticism, Textual KW - Criticism, Textual UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32822125 AB - " 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"-- ER -