“A Book One Can with Complete Confidence Call Important”
Albert Erskine, Ralph Ellison, and the Publishing of Invisible Man
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21341463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D King (0000-0002-7092-1820, corresponding author), DANIEL ROBERT KING |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 483-511 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8758 • E-ISSN: 1469-5154 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021875821000864 |
| OpenAlex | W3201753091 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In this article I examine the editing and publishing of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by Albert Erskine. Over the course of the piece, I deploy letters, drafts, and other material drawn from both Ellison's archive in the Library of Congress and Erskine's own archive at the University of Virginia to unpack how Erskine, as a white editor at a powerful international publishing house, conceived of his role in shepherding to market and marketing what he saw as a major literary work by an African American author
Art · Art history · Biology · Literature · Media studies · Publishing · Sociology · White (mutation) · American and British Literature Analysis · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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