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Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus, Angle of Ascent, and American Journal, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Also included is an introduction by American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, as well as an afterword by Arnold Rampersad that provides a critical and historical context. In Hayden s work the actualities of history and culture became the launching places for flights of imagination and intelligence. His voice characterized by musical diction and an exquisite feeling for the formality of pattern is a seminal one in American life and literature."
"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York
Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins'
Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American
life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with
a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad.
Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads W.E.B. DuBois's classic work "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery" (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels of slavery and novels of sharecropping and questions the critical tendency to conflate the two, thereby also conflating the nineteenth century with the twentieth, the rural with the urban. Although works by Afro-American writers are the primary focus, the authors also examine antislavery novels by white women. Hortense J. Spillers gives extensive attention to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in juxtaposition with Ishmael Reed's "Flight to Canada"; Carolyn L. Karcher reads Lydia Maria Child's "A Romance of the Republic" as an abolitionist vision of America's racial destiny. In a concluding chapter, Deborah E. McDowell's reading of "Desa Rose" reveals how slavery and freedom-- dominant themes in nineteenth-century black literature-- continue to command the attention of contemporary authors.
Eric Walrond (1898 1966), in his only book, injected a profound Caribbean sensibility into black literature. His work was closest to that of Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston with its striking use of dialect and its insights into the daily lives of the people around him. Growing up in British Guiana, Barbados, and Panama, Walrond first published Tropic Death to great acclaim in 1926. This book of stories viscerally charts the days of men working stone quarries or building the Panama Canal, of women tending gardens and rearing needy children. Early on addressing issues of skin color and class, Walrond imbued his stories with a remarkable compassion for lives controlled by the whims of nature. Despite his early celebrity, he died in London in 1966 with minimal recognition given to his passing. Arnold Rampersad s elegant introduction reclaims this classic work and positions Walrond alongside the prominent writers of his age."
February 1, 2002marks the birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the event, Arnold Rampersad will contribute a new afterword to Volume 1 of this biography which traces Hughes' life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941. Portraying Hughes' association with a dazzling range of political activists, patrons and artist, Rampersad offers a sweeping panorama of culture and history in the early twentieth century.
February 1, 2002 marks the birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the event, Arnold Rampersad will contribute a new afterword to volume 2 of this definitive biographical set which begins in the same setting where volume 1 left off: in Harlem and taking the community as the source of his insperation. It shows him rethinking his view of art and radicalism, tracing his burgeoning career and exploring his relationship with younger, more millitant writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka. By his death in 1967, HUghes was revered not only as dean of Afro-American writers but also as a world renowned artist whos poems, plays and stories had profoundly influenced writers in Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Eric Walrond (1898 1966), in his only book, injected a profound Caribbean sensibility into black literature. His work was closest to that of Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston with its striking use of dialect and its insights into the daily lives of the people around him. Growing up in British Guiana, Barbados, and Panama, Walrond first published Tropic Death to great acclaim in 1926. This book of stories viscerally charts the days of men working stone quarries or building the Panama Canal, of women tending gardens and rearing needy children. Early on addressing issues of skin color and class, Walrond imbued his stories with a remarkable compassion for lives controlled by the whims of nature. Despite his early celebrity, he died in London in 1966 with minimal recognition given to his passing. Arnold Rampersad s elegant introduction reclaims this classic work and positions Walrond alongside the prominent writers of his age."
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