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The Editor Function - Literary Publishing in Postwar America (Paperback)
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Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources
of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized "the
author function" in his 1969 essay "What Is an Author?" proposing
that the existence of the author limits textual meaning. Abram
Foley shows a similar critique at work in the labor of several
postwar editors who sought to question and undo the corporate
"editorial/industrial complex." Marking an end to the powerful
trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The Editor Function demonstrates
how practices of editing and publishing constitute their own kinds
of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how. The
Editor Function follows avant-garde American literary editors and
the publishing practices they developed to compete against the
postwar corporate consolidation of the publishing industry. Foley
studies editing and publishing through archival readings and small
press and literary journal publishing lists as unique sites for
literary inquiry. Pairing histories and analyses of well- and
lesser-known figures and publishing formations, from Cid Corman's
Origin and Nathaniel Mackey's Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and
Semiotext(e), Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major
publishing initiatives in the postwar United States. The Editor
Function proposes that from the seemingly mundane tasks of these
editors-routine editorial correspondence, line editing, list
formation-emerge visions of new, better worlds and new textual and
conceptual spaces for collective action.
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