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Author : Noelle Morrissette
Release : 2023-02-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 822/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anne Spencer Between Worlds by : Noelle Morrissette
Download or read book Anne Spencer Between Worlds written by Noelle Morrissette. This book was released on 2023-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noelle Morrissette
Release : 2023-02-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 948/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anne Spencer between Worlds by : Noelle Morrissette
Download or read book Anne Spencer between Worlds written by Noelle Morrissette. This book was released on 2023-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer’s expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to her manuscripts authored from 1940 to 1975. Through its attentiveness to Spencer’s published and unpublished work, her work as a librarian and an activist, and the political dimensions of her writing, Anne Spencer between Worlds transforms our understanding of Spencer. It offers a sustained examination of poetry and ecology, and the relationships among race, gender, and archives, through its analysis of the manuscripts that Spencer produced and revised throughout her life. Morrissette argues that the expansiveness, depth, and range of Spencer’s writing has not been appreciated because she did not publish this incomplete, ongoing work. She also demonstrates that careful reading of the manuscripts challenges many of the assumptions that have governed Spencer’s reception. In Anne Spencer between Worlds, Spencer emerges as a deeply engaged political poet who used the creative possibilities of the unpublished manuscript to explore pressing political and cultural concerns and to develop experimental cultural forms. In her unpublished manuscripts, Spencer pushed beyond the lyric mode to develop experimental forms that were alert to the expressive possibilities of the epic, prose, correspondence, and mixed genres. Indeed, Spencer’s manuscripts serve as witnesses of historical and poetic junctions for the poet and for the attentive reader of her archives.
Author : J. Lee Greene
Release : 1977-01-01
Genre : African American women poets
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Book Rating : 947/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Time's Unfading Garden by : J. Lee Greene
Download or read book Time's Unfading Garden written by J. Lee Greene. This book was released on 1977-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia Spencer Carr
Release : 2003
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 224/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lonely Hunter by : Virginia Spencer Carr
Download or read book The Lonely Hunter written by Virginia Spencer Carr. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel. From McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, The Lonely Hunter thoroughly covers every significant event in, and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her emotional, artistic, and sexual eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; her travels in America and Europe; and the provenance of her works from their earliest drafts through their book, stage, and film versions. To research her subject, Virginia Spencer Carr visited all of the important places in McCullers's life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of McCullers's relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer.
Author : Stacy I. Morgan
Release : 2004
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 798/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rethinking Social Realism by : Stacy I. Morgan
Download or read book Rethinking Social Realism written by Stacy I. Morgan. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social realist movement, with its focus on proletarian themes and its strong ties to New Deal programs and leftist politics, has long been considered a depression-era phenomenon that ended with the start of World War II. This study explores how and why African American writers and visual artists sustained an engagement with the themes and aesthetics of social realism into the early cold war-era--far longer than a majority of their white counterparts. Stacy I. Morgan recalls the social realist atmosphere in which certain African American artists and writers were immersed and shows how black social realism served alternately to question the existing order, instill race pride, and build interracial, working-class coalitions. Morgan discusses, among others, such figures as Charles White, John Wilson, Frank Marshall Davis, Willard Motley, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, and Hale Woodruff.
