Developing and Sustaining Literary Publics: Prizes, Festivals and New Writing

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-250
Author(s):  
Ifeona Fulani
Keyword(s):  
Literary Publics

From the Ground Up

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-224
Author(s):  
Kinohi Nishikawa
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
Institutional Politics ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Black Intellectual ◽  
Literary Journals ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
Literary Publics ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Usable Past

The chapter is anchored in a survey of African American-owned small presses, literary journals, and magazines to demonstrate how the Black Arts Movement’s editors negotiated readerly taste and institutional politics to bring Black Arts to the masses. I consider, for example, Dudley Randall at Detroit’s Broadside Press, Naomi Long Madgett at Lotus Press (also Detroit), and Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) at Chicago’s Third World Press alongside Hoyt Fuller’s work for periodicals in Chicago (Negro Digest/Black World), and Nommo, the small literary journal of the Organization of Black American Culture. The chapter also reveals how post-civil rights black literary publics formed and considers how, for example, the establishment of Howard University Press in 1974 extended the black intellectual tradition’s effort to recover a “usable past.”

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Allan
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Publics ◽  
The One ◽  
Modern Arabic

This book raises a number of questions concerning the assumed universalism of world literature by analyzing the interwoven strands of modernization, literature, and secularism. It examines the putative opposition between a practice of reading based on memorization, embodiment, and recitation in Qur'anic schools and another practice based on reflection, critique, and judgment, increasingly integral to what gets defined as literacy in the modern Egyptian state. By taking colonial Egypt as a paradigmatic site from which to consider literary publics, textual cultures, and the history of reading, the book reveals two convergent and enmeshed narratives: on the one hand, the formation of a modern literary paradigm linked to education reform, the rise of a reading public and modern Arabic literature, and on the other hand, the story of what gets blotted out, religious institutions and practices that come to be understood as traditional.

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