Writing across the color line : U.S. print culture and the rise of ethnic literature, 1877-1920 /

"The turn of the twentieth century was a period of experimental possibility for U.S. ethnic literature as a number of writers of color began to collaborate with the predominantly white publishing trade to make their work commercially available. In this new book, Lucas A. Dietrich analyzes publi...

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Main Author: Dietrich, Lucas A., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:Studies in print culture and the history of the book
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Table of Contents:
  • Sensational job : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton in the J.B. Lippincott catalog
  • Across the color line : Charles W. Chesnutt, Houghton Mifflin, and the racial paratext
  • Satire of whiteness : Finley Peter Dunne's newspaper fictions
  • Against benevolent readers : The souls of Black folk, Mrs. Spring fragrance,and A. C. McClurg & Co.
  • Epilogue: The future American.