Davis Eric Walrond

A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53861-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The first biography of a fascinating Caribbean-born writer, unraveling the mystery behind his disappearance from New York at the end of the Harlem Renaissance and recognizing his contribution to the New Negro movement beyond Harlem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction: A Harlem Story, a Diaspora Story
1. Guyana and Barbados (1898–1911)
2. Panama (1911–1918)
3. New York (1918–1923)
4. The New Negro (1923–1926)
5. Tropic Death
6. A Person of Distinction (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

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

James Davis is associate professor of English and American studies at Brooklyn College. The recipient of a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is also the author of Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893–1933.