Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America

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