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Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white
plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the
South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin,
and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own family's oral
history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker's novel
brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns
with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of
American history.
Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national
literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the
Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1942. Over the next fifty years she
enriched American literature in endless ways through her writings
and, in 1993, she received an American Book Award for Lifetime
Achievement. This Is My Century is Walker's own defining summation
of her career. Selected by the author herself, the one hundred
poems include thirty-seven previously uncollected pieces and the
entire contents of three hard-to-find volumes: the award-winning
For My People (1942), Prophets for a New Day (1970), and October
Journey (1975).
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Poetry, Volumes 15-16 Sterling Allen Brown, Margaret Walker,
Modern Poetry Association Modern Poetry Association, 1920 Poetry;
American; General; American poetry; Poetry / American / General
The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the
Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works
Progress Administration programs. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet
Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro
in Illinois employed Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine
Dunham, Fenton Johnson, Frank Yerby, Richard Durham, and other
major black writers living in Chicago. The authors chronicled the
African American experience in Illinois from the beginnings of
slavery to the Great Migration. Individual chapters discuss various
aspects of public and domestic life, recreation, politics,
religion, literature, and performing arts. After the project's
cancellation in 1942, most of the writings went unpublished for
more than half a century--until now. Editor Brian Dolinar provides
an informative introduction and epilogue which explain the origins
of the project and place it in the context of the Black Chicago
Renaissance.
This first comprehensive collection of Margaret Walker's
autobiographical and literary essays has been acclaimed as "a
powerful social history and as a serious study of black American
literature."-"Kirkus Review" In the title essay, Walker recounts
the search for family and social history from which she wrote her
carefully researched novel of the Civil War. The autobiographical
essays reflect on her work and her life as an artist, as
African-American, and a woman, while the literary essays examine
the writings of such giants as Richard Wright, W.E.B. DuBois,
Phyllis Wheatley, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and others. "Spanning a
half-century (1943to 1988), these brilliant, intimate writings
capture the flavor of the times and powerfully convey the social
and literary thoughts that distinguishes Walker as one of the
intellectual beacons of her generation."-"Booklist"
The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the
Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works
Progress Administration programs. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet
Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro
in Illinois employed Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine
Dunham, Fenton Johnson, Frank Yerby, Richard Durham, and other
major black writers living in Chicago. The authors chronicled the
African American experience in Illinois from the beginnings of
slavery to the Great Migration. Individual chapters discuss various
aspects of public and domestic life, recreation, politics,
religion, literature, and performing arts. After the project's
cancellation in 1942, most of the writings went unpublished for
more than half a century--until now. Editor Brian Dolinar provides
an informative introduction and epilogue which explain the origins
of the project and place it in the context of the Black Chicago
Renaissance.
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