Visible Man - The Life of Henry Dumas

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. Jeffrey B. Leak offers a full examination of both Dumas's life and his creative development.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Leak, Jeffrey B Leak, Jeffrey B. Leak
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780820351469
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5146-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies