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Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas
Jeffrey Leak
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Description for Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas
Hardcover. The long-awaited biography of an unsung literary legend who informed the major 1960s cultural and political movements: Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights. Leak offers a full examination of both Dumas s life and his creative development." Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: B; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Henry Dumas (1934–1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were windows into the human condition. While he certainly should be understood in the context of the cultural and political movements of the 1960s - Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights - his writing, and ultimately his life, were filled with ambiguities and contradictions.
Dumas was shot and killed in 1968 in ... Read more
Henry Dumas (1934–1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were windows into the human condition. While he certainly should be understood in the context of the cultural and political movements of the 1960s - Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights - his writing, and ultimately his life, were filled with ambiguities and contradictions.
Dumas was shot and killed in 1968 in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820328706
SKU
V9780820328706
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Ref
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About Jeffrey Leak
Jeffrey B. Leak is an associate professor of English and director of the Center for the Study of the New South at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He is the editor of Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler and the author of Racial Myths and Masculinity in African American Literature.
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