Description: Editing the Harlem Renaissance foregrounds an exhaustive approach to editing and editorial issues, exploring not only those figures who edited in professional capacities, but also those authors who employed editorial practices during the writing process and those texts that have been discovered or edited by others following the Harlem Renaissance.
Brief description: Joshua M. Murray is assistant professor of English and the pre-law and paralegal studies coordinator at Fayetteville State University. He specializes in African American literature with emphasis on the Harlem Renaissance, transnationalism, and autobiography & life writing. His work has been published in MidAmerica, Teaching Hemingway and Race, Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance, and Gale Researcher. He has forthcoming articles on Claude McKay's previously unpublished manuscript Romance in Marseille and Langston Hughes's use of the oceanic as critical idiom for African diasporic kinship. He is currently developing a book manuscript that underscores the historical and literary significance of transnational liminality in the Harlem Renaissance.
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'Editing the Harlem Renaissance is an outstanding and impressive text. This invaluable collection demonstrates the relevance of the Harlem Renaissance to African American literature and will result in generating productive and constructive discussion among scholars about editors and Harlem Renaissance texts.'
Sharon L. Jones, author of Rereading the Harlem Renaissance