Eric Walrond : : A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean / / James Davis.
Eric Walrond (1898-1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring Walrond to his proper place as a luminary of th...
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Davis, James, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Eric Walrond : A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean / James Davis. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (440 p.) : ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›17. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction. A Harlem Story, a Diaspora Story -- 1. Guyana Anda Rbados 18(98-1911) -- 2. Panama 19( 11-1918) -- 3. New Oyrk 19( 18-1923) -- 4. The Nwe Ngero (1923-1926) -- 5. Tropic Death -- 6. A Person of Tindicstion (1926-1929) -- 7. The Caribbean and France (1928-1931) -- 8. London I (1931-1939) -- 9. Bradford-On-Avon (1939-1952) -- 10. Roundway Hospital and the Second Battle (1952-1957) -- 11. London II (1957-1966) -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Eric Walrond (1898-1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring Walrond to his proper place as a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, this biography situates Tropic Death within the author's broader corpus and positions the work as a catalyst and driving force behind the New Negro literary movement in America.James Davis follows Walrond from the West Indies to Panama, New York, France, and finally England. He recounts his relationships with New Negro authors such as Countée Cullen, Charles S. Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, and Gwendolyn Bennett, as well as the white novelist Carl Van Vechten. He also recovers Walrond's involvement with Marcus Garvey's journal Negro World and the National Urban League journal Opportunity and examines the writer's work for mainstream venues, including Vanity Fair. In 1929, Walrond severed ties with Harlem, but he did not disappear. He contributed to the burgeoning anticolonial movement and print culture centered in England and fueled by C. L. R. James, George Padmore, and other Caribbean expatriates. His history of Panama, shelved by his publisher during the Great Depression, was the first to be written by a West Indian author. Unearthing documents in England, Panama, and the United States, and incorporating interviews, criticism of Walrond's fiction and journalism, and a sophisticated account of transnational black cultural formations, Davis builds an eloquent and absorbing narrative of an overlooked figure and his creation of modern American and world literature. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) American literature Caribbean American authors Biography. Authors, American Biography 20th century. Guyanese Americans Biography. Harlem Renaissance. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665864 print 9780231157841 https://doi.org/10.7312/davi15784 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231538619 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231538619/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction. A Harlem Story, a Diaspora Story -- 1. Guyana Anda Rbados 18(98-1911) -- 2. Panama 19( 11-1918) -- 3. New Oyrk 19( 18-1923) -- 4. The Nwe Ngero (1923-1926) -- 5. Tropic Death -- 6. A Person of Tindicstion (1926-1929) -- 7. The Caribbean and France (1928-1931) -- 8. London I (1931-1939) -- 9. Bradford-On-Avon (1939-1952) -- 10. Roundway Hospital and the Second Battle (1952-1957) -- 11. London II (1957-1966) -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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