Visible man : the life of Henry Dumas / Jeffrey B. Leak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leak, Jeffrey B., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Authors, American.

African American authors--Biography.

African American authors.

Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968.

Dumas, Henry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were windows into the human condition. While he certainly should be understood in the context of the cultural and political movements of the 1960s-Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights-his writing, and ultimately his life, were filled with ambiguities and contradictions. Dumas was shot and killed in 1968 in Harlem months before his thirty-fourt

Contents:

Arkansas boyhood

Skyscrapers, subways, and camels

Learning to read, write, and think

Another conversion

Progress, setbacks, and romance

Chasing change

Pages without a publisher

Headed to east boogie

From sweet home to Harlem

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820347103

0820347108

OCLC:

870646840