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Description for Holiday
Paperback. The events of this novel take place on a single day in the southern town of Nazareth, a day so punishingly hot that Virginia Hade gives her father's black workers a holiday from work at the request of the black overseer, John Cloud. Meanwhile, a Revival tent is set up in the town, and a wave of religious passion spreads among the townsfolk. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4531 x 3233 x 534. Weight in Grams: 249.
The novel Holiday is a compelling account of a southern lynching in which the simmering sexual and religious fervor and the violent act to which they inexorably lead are depicted in a modernist, experimental style.
Although Holiday was promoted alongside Harlem Renaissance works, Waldo Frank was not a natural fit for the New Negro movement. Born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family in New Jersey and educated at Yale, Frank traveled around the South in 1922 with his friend, the Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer, collecting observations for what was to become Holiday.
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The novel Holiday is a compelling account of a southern lynching in which the simmering sexual and religious fervor and the violent act to which they inexorably lead are depicted in a modernist, experimental style.
Although Holiday was promoted alongside Harlem Renaissance works, Waldo Frank was not a natural fit for the New Negro movement. Born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family in New Jersey and educated at Yale, Frank traveled around the South in 1922 with his friend, the Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer, collecting observations for what was to become Holiday.
The events ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071331
SKU
V9780252071331
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Ref
99-15
About Waldo David Frank
Waldo Frank (1889-1967) was a journalist and the author of The Unwelcome Man, Our America, Dawn in Russia, and In the American Jungle, among other works. Kathleen Pfeiffer is an associate professor of English at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. She is the author of Race Passing and American Individualism.
Reviews for Holiday
Praise for the original edition of Holiday: "As a work of art this book has few peers. As a real book, with a sincere motive, it is hardly to be approached."
San Francisco Bulletin Praise for this edition: "Holiday offers a lively introduction to one of America's most important forgotten authors. As Kathleen Pfeiffer's introduction suggests, Frank's ... Read more
San Francisco Bulletin Praise for this edition: "Holiday offers a lively introduction to one of America's most important forgotten authors. As Kathleen Pfeiffer's introduction suggests, Frank's ... Read more