American Literature / Unit 13 AML 1224 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Editor's Power
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The idea
Jessie Redmon Fauset wrote fiction and, as a magazine editor, published many of the movement's writers early. The witness places her among the Harlem Renaissance figures, and her editorial position shows how much of the movement was made by people choosing what appeared in print.
In practice
An editor who printed a generation.
Where people slip
Editorial choice shaped the canon we inherit.
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