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The Art and Life of Clarence Major
Keith Byerman
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Description for The Art and Life of Clarence Major
Paperback. Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet - as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. The Art and Life of Clarence Major is the first critical biography of this innovative African American writer and visual artist. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22 black & white images and 17 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ACXJ8; AFC; AGB; BGF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 658.
Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet—as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The Art and Life of Clarence Major is the first critical biography of this innovative African American writer and visual artist. Given the full cooperation of his subject, Keith E. Byerman traces Major’s life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820349824
SKU
V9780820349824
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About Keith Byerman
KEITH E. BYERMAN is a professor of English at Indiana State University. He is the author or editor of six previous books, including Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction.
Reviews for The Art and Life of Clarence Major
This carefully researched bio-critical study not only provides a compelling view of Clarence Major’s life and multifaceted career but also offers signal insights into the life and work of other writers of African American descent whose artistic production has not been limited, and should not be read as limited, by ‘race.’
Joe Weixlmann
editor emeritus of the African ... Read more
This groundbreaking study provides fresh insight into Major’s fiction, poetry, and painting. By drawing on previously unknown archival material and interviews, Byerman develops a rich account of Major’s life and sheds new light on the creative practice of an experimentalist who is quite possibly the most prolific African American writer of his generation.
Linda Furgerson Selzer
author of Charles Johnson in Context
The Art and Life of Clarence Major provides a biography and critical study offering a close examination of Clarence Major’s life and art, in the process offering other insights into other African American writers who also have achieved great things. . . . Arts and literary collections as well as Afro-American holdings will consider this a winner!
Midwest Book Review The author depicts Major as an antihero whom readers will indict for his personality and ethical choices yet will strive to understand because of his exceptional gifts and talents. Byerman takes on the daunting task of juxtaposing Major’s excellence and weaknesses in light of his relative obscurity in the overall American – even African American – literary canon.
L. Lawson Jr.
Choice
“Byerman provides a comprehensive introduction to Major’s career that succeeds by delving into lesser-known aspects of Major’s art, a process he alone was able to accomplish by gaining Major’s trust and being welcomed into his house—and his garage. The result will be appreciated by readers and used by scholars.”
Amy Hildreth Chen
Callaloo
“Byerman’s critical biography of an important innovator offers much insight into a large and complex body of work, and also considers how such innovations are resisted by both African American and general American literary history.”
Jerome Klinkowitz
American Literary Scholarship
“A provocative, informative postracial bio-critical study that complements Bernard W. Bell’s Clarence Major and His Art.”
Journal of American Studies
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Joe Weixlmann
editor emeritus of the African ... Read more
This groundbreaking study provides fresh insight into Major’s fiction, poetry, and painting. By drawing on previously unknown archival material and interviews, Byerman develops a rich account of Major’s life and sheds new light on the creative practice of an experimentalist who is quite possibly the most prolific African American writer of his generation.
Linda Furgerson Selzer
author of Charles Johnson in Context
The Art and Life of Clarence Major provides a biography and critical study offering a close examination of Clarence Major’s life and art, in the process offering other insights into other African American writers who also have achieved great things. . . . Arts and literary collections as well as Afro-American holdings will consider this a winner!
Midwest Book Review The author depicts Major as an antihero whom readers will indict for his personality and ethical choices yet will strive to understand because of his exceptional gifts and talents. Byerman takes on the daunting task of juxtaposing Major’s excellence and weaknesses in light of his relative obscurity in the overall American – even African American – literary canon.
L. Lawson Jr.
Choice
“Byerman provides a comprehensive introduction to Major’s career that succeeds by delving into lesser-known aspects of Major’s art, a process he alone was able to accomplish by gaining Major’s trust and being welcomed into his house—and his garage. The result will be appreciated by readers and used by scholars.”
Amy Hildreth Chen
Callaloo
“Byerman’s critical biography of an important innovator offers much insight into a large and complex body of work, and also considers how such innovations are resisted by both African American and general American literary history.”
Jerome Klinkowitz
American Literary Scholarship
“A provocative, informative postracial bio-critical study that complements Bernard W. Bell’s Clarence Major and His Art.”
Journal of American Studies
Show Less