How I wrote Jubilee and other essays on life and literature / Margaret Walker ; edited by Maryemma Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998

Contributor:

Graham, Maryemma, editor.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998.

Walker, Margaret.

Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998. Jubilee.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

African American authors--Biography.

African American authors.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 157 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : portraits ; 23 cm

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by The Talman Company.

Place of Publication:

New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1990.

Summary:

B B B This first comprehensive collection of Margaret Walker's autobiographical and literary essays has been acclaimed as "a powerful social history and as a serious study of black American literature."-Kirkus Review In the title essay, Walker recounts the search for family and social history from which she wrote her carefully researched novel of the Civil War. The autobiographical essays reflect on her work and her life as an artist, as African-American, and a woman, while the literary essays examine the writings of such giants as Richard Wright, W.E.B. DuBois, Phyllis Wheatley, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and others. "Spanning a half-century (1943to 1988), these brilliant, intimate writings capture the flavor of the times and powerfully convey the social and literary thoughts that distinguishes Walker as one of the intellectual beacons of her generation."-Booklist

Contents:

Part One. Growing Out of Shadow

Part Two. Literary and Other Legacies.

Notes:

"Cover design by Ellen M. Hennegan."

"Cover photo by David Rae Morris. Text design by Paula Martinac."

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

1558610030

9781558610033

1558610049

9781558610040

OCLC:

20088623