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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tidwell, John Edgar.

Tracy, Steven C. (Steven Carl), 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Brown, Sterling A.

Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989.

Criticism and interpretation.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African American aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xxv, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

For more than sixty years, Sterling A. Brown-poet, folklorist, cultural critic, literary historian, teacher, and raconteur-profoundly shaped the development of African American literary and cultural studies. A collection of new and exemplary writings, this volume represents an unprecedented effort to recover, reassess, and reassert Brown's enduring significance for contemporary scholars, students, and nonacademic readers. This engaging recuperative project is structured around four distinctive features: New and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approaches to the various genres of Brown's works, Interviews with Brown and with his acquaintances and communicate his importance as a scholar, creative writer, and teacher, Two discographies of source material that innovatively extend the study of Brown's acclaimed poetry by focusing on recordings of folk materials relevant to the subject matter, style, and meaning of individual poems from his ocuvre, An updated version of the most comprehensive bibliography of Brown's published writings, by Robert G. O'Meally, After Winter aptly demonstrates how Brown, in words from one of his familiar poems, continues to "just get hold of us dataway." Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction to Southern road (1932) / James Weldon Johnson

Sterling Brown : the new negro folk-poet / Alain LeRoy Locke

The heavy blues of Sterling Brown : a study of craft and tradition / Stephen E. Henderson

Review of The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"When de saints go ma'chin' home" : Sterling Brown's blueprint for a new negro poetry / Robert Burns Stepto

Two writers sharing : Sterling A. Brown, Robert Frost, and "In Divés' Dive" / John Edgar Tidwell

Listen Br'er Sterling : the critic as liar (a pre(r)amble to essays on Sterling Brown) / Kimberly W. Benston

Two lost sonnets by Sterling A. Brown / edited and introduced by John Edgar Tidwell and Ted Genoways

Worrying the lines : versification in Sterling Brown's Southern road / Michael Tomasek Manson

"Game to the heart" : Sterling Brown and the badman / Robert G. O'Meally

Slim Greer, Sterling A. Brown, and the art of tall tale / John Edgar Tidwell

The new negro poet and the Nachal man : Sterling Brown's folk odyssey / John S. Wright

Authenticity and elevation : Sterling Brown's theory of the blues / Lorenzo Thomas

Sterling A. Brown and the Afro-modern moment / Mark A. Sanders

Sterling Brown : an ethnographic odyssey / Beverly Lanier Skinner

Sterling Brown's southern strategy : poetry as cultural evolution in Southern road / David R. Anderson

In defense of African American culture : Sterling A. Brown, Gunnar Myrdal, and An American dilemma / John Edgar Tidwell

Sterling A. Brown's literary essays : the Black reader in the text / Robert G. O'Meally

"A Brown study" : Sterling Brown's legacy of compassionate connections / John F. Callahan

The professor and the activists : a memoir of Sterling Brown / Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

An integer is a whole number / Michael S. Harper

"Let me be with Old Jazzbo" : an interview with Sterling A. Brown / Charles H. Rowell

A symposium on the life and work of Sterling Brown / edited by David L. Smith

"Steady and unaccusing" : an interview with Sterling A. Brown / John Edgar Tidwell and John S. Wright

Br'er Sterling and the blues : an interview with Michael S. Harper / Graham Lock, with a preface by Michael S. Harper

Clarifying philosophy : Sterling A. Brown and the Nonviolent Action Group / John Edgar Tidwell

A conversation with John H. Bracey, Esther Terry, and Mike Thelwell / Steven C. Tracy

An annotated bibliography of the works of Sterling A. Brown / Robert G. O'Meally

"Fear did not catch his tongue and throttle his breath" : a discography of recordings by and related to Sterling A. Brown / Steven C. Tracy

Vernacular recordings relevant to the study of Sterling A. Brown's Southern road / Steven C. Tracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"An annotated bibliography of the works of Sterling A. Brown": pages 431-442.

Includes discographies: pages 445-455.

ISBN:

9780195365795

0195365798

9780195365801

0195365801

OCLC:

213856825