Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America

ISBN-13: 9781137390516 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 248 str.

Cecile Cottenet

Opis

Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue European and American scholars and spanning the slavery era through the early 21st century, they draw on approaches from library history, literary history and textual studies.

Spis treści

List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Personal acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Cécile Cottenet PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY 1. Early African American Historians: a Book History and Historiography Approach.The Case of William Cooper Nell (1816-1874); Claire Parfait 2. Publication and Reception of The Southern Negro and the Public Library; Cheryl Knott PART II: BILINGUALISM AND ETHNIC IDENTITY 3. Widening the Paradigm of American Literature: Small Presses in the Publishing and Creation of New Hispanic Texts; Manuel Brito 4. Franco-American Writers: In-visible Authors in the Global Literary Market; Peggy Pacini PART III: CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES - A GENDERED PERSPECTIVE 5. Reacting to the White Publishing World: Zora Neale Hurston and Negro Stereotypes; Claudine Raynaud 6. Beyond Mainstream Presses: Publishing Women of Color as Cultural and Political Critique; Matilde Martín González PART IV: RE-VISITING THE CANON 7. The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer in The Double Dealer and Modernist Networks; John K. Young 8. Popular Book Clubs and the Marketing of African American Best Sellers; Laurence Cossu-Beaumont 9. The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley in Slavery's Recollective Economies, 1773 to the Present; Max Cavitch Epilogue: An Experience in Literary Archaeology: Publishing a Black Lost Generation; Samuel Blumenfeld Bibliography Index

O autorze

Samuel Blumenfeld, film critic and reporter, France Manuel Brito, Universidad de la Laguna in Tenerife, Spain Max Cavitch, University of Pennsylvania, USA Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Université Paris III, France Cheryl Knott, University of Arizona, USA Matilde Martin Gonzalez, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain Peggy Pacini, Cergy Pontoise Université, France Claire Parfait, University of Paris, France Claudine Raynaud, University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France John K. Young, Marshall University, USA