Trumpeting a Fiery Sound - History and Folklore in Margaret Walker's ""Jubilee (Paperback, Pbk. ed)

When twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Walker's first collection of poems, For My People, won the Yale Poets Award in 1942, she was just beginning her long and distinguished career as a poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher. When her novel Jubilee was published to great acclaim in 1966, the New York Review of Books said, "[It] chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondages." Jubilee is noteworthy for being one of the first novels to present African American history from both a black and female perspective. It is a historical and fictional account of Walker's great-grandmother's life, from slavery through Reconstruction, as told to Walker by her maternal grandmother. In Trumpeting a Fiery Sound, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael examines the novel's genesis and composition, the process of revision and publication, the work's structure and narrative strategies, its use of history and folklore, and its critical reception in the three decades since its first publication.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	November 2003
Authors:	Jacqueline Miller Carmichael
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	184
Edition:	Pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-2575-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-8203-2575-9
Barcode:	9780820325750

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