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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823966503321

Titolo

After winter [[electronic resource] ] : the art and life of Sterling A. Brown / / edited by John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-772300-4

1-281-93094-6

9786611930943

1-4416-0031-0

0-19-971089-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TidwellJohn Edgar

TracySteven C <1954-> (Steven Carl)

Disciplina

811/.52

Soggetti

African American aesthetics

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes discographies.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Sterling A. Brown Chronology; Introduction: Sterling A. Brown's Odyssey into the Heart of Blackness; Part I: Revelations; Part II: "A Nachal Man": Formal and Vernacular Aesthetic Theories; Part III: Folk-Say and Living-People-Lore; Part IV: Unhistoric History: American and African American Cultures; Part V: "Running Space": Legacies and Continuities; Part VI: "Steady and Unaccusing": Interviews; Part VII: "On This I Stand": A Bibliography; Part VIII: "A Geography of Poetry and Song": A Discography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, After Winter includes new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approaches to Brown's multifaceted works; interviews with Brown's acquaintances and contemporaries; an up-to-date, annotated bibliography; and a



discography of source material that innovatively extends th