Visible Man - The Life of Henry Dumas

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were windows into the human condition. Jeffrey B. Leak offers an examination of both Dumas's life and his creative development. Given access to the Dumas archival materials and numerous interviews with family, friends, and writers who knew him, Leak opens the door to Dumas's rich and at times frustrating life, giving us a layered portrait of an African American writer and his coming of age. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Leak, Jeffrey B Leak, Jeffrey B. Leak
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2014
• EAN: 9780820328706
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2870-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies