Literary Market Place 2002

This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new interpretations of local literary marketplaces to assert the significance of local, not global meanings. The book offers longer case studies on novels that stage important reading moments: Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps (1953), Leonardo Padura’s Adios, Hemingway (2001), Tabish Khair’s Filming (2007), Chibundhu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos (2017), and Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016). Chapters argue that while India’s literary market was disrupted by Partition, literature offers a means of moving beyond trauma; in post-Revolutionary Cuba, the Special Period led to exploitation of Cuban literary culture, resulting in texts that foreground reading spaces; in Nigeria, the market hosts meeting, negotiation, reflection, and trade, including the writer’s trade; while Black consciousness bookshops and writing in Britain operated to challenge the UK literary market, a project still underway. This book is a vindication of reading, and of the resistant power and creative potential of local literary marketplaces. It insists on ‘located reading’, enabling close reading of world literatures sited in their local materialities.

For book publishing contacts on a global scale, International Literary Market Place 2004 is your ticket to the peple, companies, and resources at the heart of publishing in more than 180 countries. With the flip of a page, you'll find completely up-to-date profiles for more than 16,500 book-related concerns around the globe including:*10,500 publishers and literary agents*1,100 major booksellers and book clubs*1,520 major libraries and library associations... and thousands of other book-related concerns. Plus, ILMP 2004 includes two publisher indexesTypes of Publications Index and Subject Indexthat offers access to publishers via some 140 headings. Additional coverage includes information on international literary prizes, copyright conventions, a yellow pages directory, and a worldwide calendar of events through 2007.

Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.

The Directory of the American Book Publishing Industry, Cited in Sheehy's Guide to Reference Books. "No well-stocked library can afford to be without this annually updated reference to the publishing industry. -Bookwatch. "LMP is a reference without competition. Those needing current data on publishers, their rapidly circulating staff & support systems must have LMP." -Reference & Research Book News "(Among) the 10 most frequently thumbed (reference books) by Boston Public Library's humanities reference librarians are ... Literary Market Place, Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory (&) Books In Print." -Boston Globe "This is perhaps the single most essential directory for almost every North American book publisher." -Huenefeld Report. Literary Market Place 2002 is the ultimate insider's guide to the U.S. book publishing industry, covering every conceivable aspect of the business. In two, easy-to-use volumes, it provides: *50 sections organizing everyone & everything in the business -- from publishers, agents & ad agencies to associations, distributors & events *Over 14,500 listings in all -- featuring names, addresses & numbers, key personnel, activities, specialties & other relevant data, e-mail addresses & Web sites & more *Some 24,000 decision-makers throughout the industry, listed in a separate "Personnel Yellow Pages" section in each volume *Thousands of services & suppliers equipped to meet every publishing need or requirement *More than 300 new entries to this edition plus thousands of updated listings throughout. LMP 2002 leaves no stone unturned in connecting you with the publishing firm, service, or product you or your patrons need. It's completely revised & updated to help: *Publishers locate other publishers, free-lancers, agents, printers, wholesalers, manufacturers & more *Suppliers find names & numbers of potential publishing customers *Job seekers locate contact names, addresses & phone numbers throughout the industry *Booksellers get publisher ordering & shipping information *Writers locate publishers for their works *Librarians provide patrons with the reference source they need to find their way through the publishing industry. When it comes to books you can reach the people who publish, package, review, represent, edit, translate, typeset, illustrate, design, print, bind, promote, publicize, ship, distribute & export them, all at one world-famous business address: Literary Market Place 2002.

Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces. Writing during a particularly complex time in Scottish literary history, Hogg, a working shepherd for much of his life, is seen to challenge many of the aesthetic conventions adopted by his contemporaries and to anticipate many of the concerns voiced in discussions of literature in recent years. While the essays privilege Hogg's primary texts and read them closely in their immediate cultural context, the volume's contributors also introduce relevant research on oral culture, nationalism, transnationalism, intertextuality, class, colonialism, empire, psychology, and aesthetics where they serve to illuminate Hogg's literary ingenuity as a working-class writer in Romantic Scotland.

These unique essays focus primarily on Woolf's non-fiction and considers her in the context of the modernist marketplace. With research based on new archival material, this volume makes important new contributions to the study of the 'gift economy.'

A fascinating history of Jorge Luis Borges's efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America "Nora Benedict's illuminating book is an essential contribution to the understanding of Borges' relationship to the written word. The portrait of Borges as writer and reader is now made complete with Benedict's exploration of Borges as editor."--Alberto Manguel, Director of the Center for Research into the History of Reading Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) stands out as one of the most widely regarded and inventive authors in world literature. Yet the details of his employment history throughout the early part of the twentieth century, which foreground his efforts to develop a worldly reading public, have received scant critical attention. From librarian and cataloguer to editor and publisher, this writer emerges as entrenched in the physical minutiae and social implications of the international book world. Drawing on years of archival research coupled with bibliographical analysis, this book explains how Borges's more general involvement in the publishing industry influenced not only his formation as a writer, but also global book markets and reading practices in world literature. In this way it tells the story of Borges's profound efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America through his varying jobs in the publishing industry.

Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. Stephen Crane, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain were among those who offered their early fiction to 'Syndicates', firms which subsequently sold the work to newspapers across America for simultaneous, first-time publication. This newly decentralised process profoundly affected not only the economics of publishing, but also the relationship between authors, texts and readers. In the first full-length study of this publishing phenomenon, Charles Johanningsmeier evaluates the unique site of interaction syndicates held between readers and texts.