Echo tree : the collected short fiction of Henry Dumas / edited and with a new foreword by Eugene B. Redmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968, author.

Contributor:

Redmond, Eugene, editor, writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 381 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2021.

Summary:

African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction--Dumas's stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America. Henry Dumas's fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, the present and the ancestral. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on real, magical, and mythic quests. Humming with life, Dumas's stories create a collage of mid-twentieth-century Black experiences, interweaving religious metaphor, African cosmologies, diasporic folklore, and America's history of slavery and systemic racism.

Notes:

First edition: 2003.

ISBN:

9781566896078

156689607X

OCLC:

1175914422