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After Winter - The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown (Hardcover, New): John Edgar Tidwell, Steven C Tracy After Winter - The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown (Hardcover, New)
John Edgar Tidwell, Steven C Tracy
R1,579 Discovery Miles 15 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, After Winter is structured around the following three features: (1) new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approaches to the multifaceted works that Brown created in a variety of genres; (2) interviews with Brown's acquaitances and contemporaries that articulate his unique aesthetic vision and communicate his importance as a scholar, creative writer, and teacher; and (3) a discography of source material that innovatively extends the study and teaching of Brown's acclaimed poetry, especially his Southern Road, focusing on recordings of folk materials relevant to the subject matter, style, and meaning of individual poems from his oeuvre.

Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South (Hardcover, New): John Edgar Tidwell, Mark A. Sanders Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South (Hardcover, New)
John Edgar Tidwell, Mark A. Sanders
R1,536 R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Save R372 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in extended, non-fiction essays of many different types, illustrate the diversity of opinions in the Black South about the war and the war period in America. For nearly sixty years, the excerpts that were never published languished in Brown's manuscript collection at Howard University. Now, for the first time, all of the completed pieces of unpublished writings are combined with the few published sections into the book that Brown envisioned. The legacy Brown left us is not only a superb portrait of the way in which African Americans of the mid-century talked and lived; he also provided a methodology that oral and written historians will find extremely useful. This is clearly a document from another time, as its now outdated title reminds us, but it reveals a world that still informs our sense of ourselves as a nation. In fact, it is an unforgettable history, which Brown has cast in a bright, elucidating new light.

After Winter - The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown (Paperback, annotated edition): John Edgar Tidwell, Steven C Tracy After Winter - The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown (Paperback, annotated edition)
John Edgar Tidwell, Steven C Tracy
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, After Winter is structured around the following three features: (1) new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approaches to the multifaceted works that Brown created in a variety of genres; (2) interviews with Brown's acquaitances and contemporaries that articulate his unique aesthetic vision and communicate his importance as a scholar, creative writer, and teacher; and (3) a discography of source material that innovatively extends the study and teaching of Brown's acclaimed poetry, especially his Southern Road, focusing on recordings of folk materials relevant to the subject matter, style, and meaning of individual poems from his oeuvre.

Writings of Frank Marshall Davis - A Voice of the Black Press (Paperback): John Edgar Tidwell Writings of Frank Marshall Davis - A Voice of the Black Press (Paperback)
John Edgar Tidwell
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the "Atlanta World," the "Associated Negro Press," the "Chicago Star," and the "Honolulu Record." "Writings of Frank Marshall Davis" presents a selection of Davis's nonfiction, providing an unprecedented insight into one journalist's ability to reset the terms of public conversation and frame the news to open up debate among African Americans and all Americans.

During the middle of the twentieth century, Davis set forth a radical vision that challenged the status quo. His commentary on race relations, music, literature, and American culture was precise, impassioned, and engaged. At the height of World War II, Davis boldly questioned the nature of America's potential postwar relations and what they meant for African Americans and the nation. His work challenged the usefulness of race as a social construct, and he eventually disavowed the idea of race altogether. Throughout his career, he championed the struggles of African Americans for equal rights and laboring people seeking fair wages and other benefits.

In his reviews on music, he argued that blues and jazz were responses to social conditions and served as weapons of racial integration. His book reviews complemented his radical vision by commenting on how literature reshapes one's understanding of the world. Even his travel writings on Hawaii called for cultural pluralism and tolerance for racial and economic difference. Writings of Frank Marshall Davis reveals a writer in touch with the most salient issues defining his era and his desire to insert them into the public sphere. John Edgar Tidwell provides an introduction and contextual notes on each major subject area Davis explored.

John Edgar Tidwell is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. He edited Frank Marshall Davis's "Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist" and "Poet and his Black Moods: Collected Poems."

My Dear Boy - Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 (Paperback): Carmaletta M. Williams, John Edgar Tidwell My Dear Boy - Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 (Paperback)
Carmaletta M. Williams, John Edgar Tidwell
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R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain that scholars have neglected the vital role that correspondence between Carrie Hughes and her son Langston-Harlem Renaissance icon, renowned poet, playwright, fiction writer, autobiographer, and essayist-played in his work. The more than 120 heretofore unexamined letters presented here are a veritable treasure trove of insights into the relationship between mother Carrie and her renowned son Langston. Until now, a scholarly consensus had begun to emerge, accepting the idea of their lives and his art as simple and transparent. But as Williams and Tidwell argue, this correspondence is precisely where scholars should start in order to understand the underlying complexity in Carrie and Langston's relationship. By employing Family Systems Theory for the first time in Hughes scholarship, they demonstrate that it is an essential heuristic for analyzing the Hughes family and its influence on his work. The study takes the critical truism about Langston's reticence to reveal his inner self and shows how his responses to Carrie were usually not in return letters but, instead, in his created art. Thus My Dear Boy reveals the difficult negotiations between family and art that Langston engaged in as he attempted to sustain an elusive but enduring artistic reputation.

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