Eric Walrond : the critical heritage / edited by Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade.

Contributor(s):

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2012Description: xiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9766402957
9789766402952
9789766402747
9766402744

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

DDC classification:

813.52 23

LOC classification:

PS3545.A5826 Z75 2012

Contents:

Introduction / Carl A. Wade and Louis J. Parascandola. -- Part 1: Pioneering voices. The Writer Who Ran Away: Eric Walrond and Tropic Death / Kenneth Ramchand ; Eric Walrond: From Down Home: Origins of the Afro-American Short Story / Robert Bone. -- Part 2: Modern critical views. "All Look Alike in Habana": Archaeologies of Blackness across Eric Walrond's Archipelago / Michelle A. Stephens ; Foreign Negro Flash Agents: Eric Walrond and the Discrepancies of Diaspora / Louis Chude-Sokei ; Genre, Gender and Eric Walrond's Equivocal Transnational Vision / Rhonda Frederick ; Eric Walrond and the Proletarian Arts Movement / Michael Niblett. -- Part 3: Biographical sketches. Eric Walrond and the Dynamics of White Patronage during the Harlem Renaissance / Carl A. Wade, Robert Bone and Louis J. Parascandola. A Prism so Strange: The Biography of Eric Walrond / James Davis ; A West Indian Grows in Brooklyn: The Early American Experiences of Eric Walrond / Louis J. Parascandola and James Davis ; Exile on Main Street: Eric Walrond and Garveyism in Great Britain in the 1930s / Carl Pedersen.

Summary: "Eric Walrond (1898-1966), author of Tropic Death (1926), remains a seminal but elusive figure in Harlem Renaissance and Caribbean diasporic literature. Although this collection remains his only major text, Walrond was in fact quite prolific, penning several more fictions and journalistic writings. Born in British Guiana (Guyana), he endured a peripatetic existence, beleaguered at every turn by those colonial crises and conflicts that constitute the central concerns of his fiction and journalism. Despite the enduing popularity of Tropic Death, there has been little sustained critical examination of Walrond's achievement. In Eric Walrond: The critical Heritage, Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade address this deficiency, fashioning the first critical anthology on Walrond. The ten essays in this volume employ a variety of literary, cultural and sociological approaches to illuminate the art and imagination of a writer celebrated as one of the most complex authors of the Harlem Renaissance. Included in the collection are two early commentaries by noted West Indian critic Kenneth Ramchand (his article is revised for this volume) and the late American scholar Robert Bone, as well as contributions by more contemporary voices. This comprehensive dissection of Walrond's life and writings reveals an oeuvre that still has much to contribute to discussions about modern black literary and cultural studies."--Page 4 of cover.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.

"Eric Walrond (1898-1966), author of Tropic Death (1926), remains a seminal but elusive figure in Harlem Renaissance and Caribbean diasporic literature. Although this collection remains his only major text, Walrond was in fact quite prolific, penning several more fictions and journalistic writings. Born in British Guiana (Guyana), he endured a peripatetic existence, beleaguered at every turn by those colonial crises and conflicts that constitute the central concerns of his fiction and journalism. Despite the enduing popularity of Tropic Death, there has been little sustained critical examination of Walrond's achievement. In Eric Walrond: The critical Heritage, Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade address this deficiency, fashioning the first critical anthology on Walrond. The ten essays in this volume employ a variety of literary, cultural and sociological approaches to illuminate the art and imagination of a writer celebrated as one of the most complex authors of the Harlem Renaissance. Included in the collection are two early commentaries by noted West Indian critic Kenneth Ramchand (his article is revised for this volume) and the late American scholar Robert Bone, as well as contributions by more contemporary voices. This comprehensive dissection of Walrond's life and writings reveals an oeuvre that still has much to contribute to discussions about modern black literary and cultural studies."--Page 4 of cover.

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