The selected works of Georgia Douglas Johnson / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; introduction by Claudia Tate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966.

Contributor:

Tate, Claudia.

Series:

African-American women writers, 1910-1940

Standardized Title:

Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Literary collections.

African American women.

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

lxxxii, 448 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, 1996.

Summary:

Poet, playwright, and short-fiction writer Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) was a central figure in the New Negro Movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Her Washington literary salon, the Round Table, was frequented by such artists and intellectuals as Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Countee Cullen, and Angelina Weld Grimke. This volume collects some of Johnson's most important work: four volumes of poetry (including The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems); four short stories (one never before published); eight plays (two never before published); and previously unpublished poems from her private papers. In addition, Claudia Tate's revealing introduction offers newly discovered information on Johnson's life and work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

078380038X

OCLC:

249038645