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Young, John K. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature.(Book review)
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Studies in American Fiction
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March 22, 2008
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Young, John K. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2006. 230 pp. Cloth: $40.
You certainly don't have to be a black American literary critic or writer to know about the double standard in the predominantly white American publishing industry. But many of us listened in disbelief at a recent conference to John A. Williams, the distinguished African American author of twenty books, including twelve novels, tell us stories about the fifty-seven rejections he received before the successful publication of his latest novel. Published finally in 1999 by Coffee House Press, an ...
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