John K. Young
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781949979558
- eISBN:
- 9781800852150
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979558.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
John K. Young poses a series of editorial questions arising from the intersection of periodical and African Americanist studies in “The Renaissance Happened in (Some of) the Magazines.” How might we ...
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John K. Young poses a series of editorial questions arising from the intersection of periodical and African Americanist studies in “The Renaissance Happened in (Some of) the Magazines.” How might we conceive of Harlem Renaissance “little” magazines along a spectrum of modernist magazine production? How should we edit the poems, stories, and essays of Harlem Renaissance figures within the run of a magazine, in such a way that editors can historicize that publishing context, in other words asking what it would have meant to encounter this text within its original publication history? Finally, how should editors of Harlem Renaissance works respond to the unique challenges posed by forms that are more ephemeral and diffuse than (many) books, especially when doing so often requires culling material from a wide range of archival sources? This kind of work, Young suggests, can position the works of the Renaissance within a more accurately historical framework, demonstrating both the extent of cross-racial textual production and circulation and the material constraints that often kept such cultural encounters temporary and contingent.Less
John K. Young poses a series of editorial questions arising from the intersection of periodical and African Americanist studies in “The Renaissance Happened in (Some of) the Magazines.” How might we conceive of Harlem Renaissance “little” magazines along a spectrum of modernist magazine production? How should we edit the poems, stories, and essays of Harlem Renaissance figures within the run of a magazine, in such a way that editors can historicize that publishing context, in other words asking what it would have meant to encounter this text within its original publication history? Finally, how should editors of Harlem Renaissance works respond to the unique challenges posed by forms that are more ephemeral and diffuse than (many) books, especially when doing so often requires culling material from a wide range of archival sources? This kind of work, Young suggests, can position the works of the Renaissance within a more accurately historical framework, demonstrating both the extent of cross-racial textual production and circulation and the material constraints that often kept such cultural encounters temporary and contingent.
Joshua M. Murray and Ross K. Tangedal (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781949979558
- eISBN:
- 9781800852150
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979558.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
As a whole, no pervasive quality unites what we now deem Harlem Renaissance literature outside of the era in which it developed. The inconsistency and varied nature of the works therefore place an ...
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As a whole, no pervasive quality unites what we now deem Harlem Renaissance literature outside of the era in which it developed. The inconsistency and varied nature of the works therefore place an even greater emphasis on the editorial processes that produced this canon. While the popular period has received much scholarly attention, the significance of editors and editing in the Harlem Renaissance—aside from the formative efforts of W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke—remains understudied. As a remedy, Editing the Harlem Renaissance foregrounds an in-depth approach to relevant editing and editorial issues, offering a variety of voices to become the first centralized authority on the subject. Rather than limiting the examination to a narrow understanding of editorial practices, this collection takes a broad and inclusive approach, exploring not only those figures of the Harlem Renaissance who edited in professional capacities but also those authors who employed editorial practices during the writing process, as well as those texts that have been discovered and/or edited by others in the decades following the Harlem Renaissance. To achieve this end, the collection comprises chapters in several areas, including professional editing, authorial editing, textual self-fashioning, textual editing, documentary editing, and bibliography.Less
As a whole, no pervasive quality unites what we now deem Harlem Renaissance literature outside of the era in which it developed. The inconsistency and varied nature of the works therefore place an even greater emphasis on the editorial processes that produced this canon. While the popular period has received much scholarly attention, the significance of editors and editing in the Harlem Renaissance—aside from the formative efforts of W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke—remains understudied. As a remedy, Editing the Harlem Renaissance foregrounds an in-depth approach to relevant editing and editorial issues, offering a variety of voices to become the first centralized authority on the subject. Rather than limiting the examination to a narrow understanding of editorial practices, this collection takes a broad and inclusive approach, exploring not only those figures of the Harlem Renaissance who edited in professional capacities but also those authors who employed editorial practices during the writing process, as well as those texts that have been discovered and/or edited by others in the decades following the Harlem Renaissance. To achieve this end, the collection comprises chapters in several areas, including professional editing, authorial editing, textual self-fashioning, textual editing, documentary editing, and bibliography.
