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Rewriting History: The Publication of W. E. B. Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935)
Ist Teil von
Book history, 2009-01, Vol.12 (1), p.266-294
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Pennsylvania State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]the house published African American writers from the very first, in 1919, and continued to do so through the Depression era.35 Catherine Turner has analyzed the way Harcourt, Brace marketed modernist writers, and she has underscored Alfred Harcourt's insistence on the importance of promotion and marketing. [...]Du Bois and his colleagues were forced to conclude that such an endeavor presented little chance of success, primarily on two accounts: first, they were dubious about enticing enough subscribers to sustain such a club, and, second, they were far from convinced they would find books to recommend month after month.51 A book-of-the-year club seemed more likely to succeed. Some of the reviewers established a clear link between historiography and the problems of the society they lived in. [...]for the Hartford Courant, Black Reconstruction was ''a book which no student of the 'Negro problem' can by any possibility afford to miss,'' while Charles A. Wagner wrote in the New York Daily Mirror that the work was of ''dire importance,'' alluding to the Scottsboro case to remind his readers that the African American ''fights the Civil War all over again every day of his Twentieth Century life. According to Ian Tyrrell (Historians in Public, 52), the most effective reviewing in terms of book sales came from the daily press rather than learned journals, and the most prominent outlets for history reviews were the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, New Republic, and Saturday Review of Literature.