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Tuneful Tales (Double Mountain Books)
Bernice Love Wiggins
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Description for Tuneful Tales (Double Mountain Books)
Paperback. As the Harlem movement focused on experiences of black Americans who sought relief from racism and endeavored to build communities, this title offers voice to the many-sided black experience in remote El Paso. Editor(s): Winegarten, Ruthe. Series: Double Mountain Books Series. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
As enigmatic and contradictory as far West Texas has always been, it is nevertheless surprising to learn that in 1925 its desert germinated a slender but vibrant shoot of the Harlem Renaissance. Isolated on the U.S.-Mexico border, far from any metropolitan African-American community or literary influences, Bernice Love Wiggins, a perceptive young poet, self-published her first, apparently only, book of poetry. One of only a handful of black writers in Texas in the 1920s and 1930s, Wiggins was contemporary with Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston and was among the first female African-American poets published in the United ... Read more
As enigmatic and contradictory as far West Texas has always been, it is nevertheless surprising to learn that in 1925 its desert germinated a slender but vibrant shoot of the Harlem Renaissance. Isolated on the U.S.-Mexico border, far from any metropolitan African-American community or literary influences, Bernice Love Wiggins, a perceptive young poet, self-published her first, apparently only, book of poetry. One of only a handful of black writers in Texas in the 1920s and 1930s, Wiggins was contemporary with Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston and was among the first female African-American poets published in the United ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
Series
Double Mountain Books Series
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896724853
SKU
V9780896724853
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