The Politics of the Page

This essay argues that attending to the bibliographic codes of early and multiple versions can enhance our understandings material forms texts in ways George Bornstein modeled Material Modernism. Focusing on modernist women’s complex engagements with print cultures, analyzes pages from Willa Cather’s novel The Professor’s House, Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat”, Gwendolyn Brooks’s sonnet “the progress”, Una Marson’s poem “Little Brown Girl”. These are most widely available editions place their richest contexts “under erasure”. these kinds analyses be used center work Black women modernists as approaches enrich research teaching less canonical without many versions.