Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Cécile Cottenet

      Pages 1-25

3. Historiography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Early African American Historians: A Book History and Historiography Approach — The Case of William Cooper Nell (1816–1874)

      • Claire Parfait

      Pages 29-50

   3. The Publication and Reception of The Southern Negro and the Public Library

      • Cheryl Knott

      Pages 51-76

4. Bilingualism and Ethnic Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Widening the Paradigm of American Literature: Small Presses in the Publishing and Creation of New Hispanic Texts

      • Manuel Brito

      Pages 79-94

   3. Franco-American Writers: In-visible Authors in the Global Literary Market

      • Peggy Pacini

      Pages 95-119

5. Challenging Stereotypes: A Gendered Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Reacting to the White Publishing World: Zora Neale Hurston and Negro Stereotypes

      • Claudine Raynaud

      Pages 123-142

   3. Beyond Mainstream Presses: Publishing Women of Color as Cultural and Political Critique

      • Matilde Martín González

      Pages 143-167

6. Re-visiting the Canon

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer in The Double Dealer and Modernist Networks

      • John K. Young

      Pages 171-192

   3. Popular Book Clubs and the Marketing of African American Best-Sellers

      • Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

      Pages 193-209

   4. The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley in Slavery’s Recollective Economies, 1773 to the Present

      • Max Cavitch

      Pages 210-230

   5. Epilogue — An Experience in Literary Archaeology: Publishing a Black Lost Generation

      • Samuel Blumenfeld

      Pages 231-242

7. Back Matter

   Pages 243-248

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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.

• America
• Amerikanische Literatur
• Cooper
• critique
• culture
• identity
• poetry

• Aix-Marseille Université, France

  Cécile Cottenet

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

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