How I Wrote Jubilee by Margaret Walker
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
Walker, Margaret: - MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998) was one of America's most popular and respected African American writers and scholars. She first gained national recognition with the 1942 poetry collection For My People, a winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. She was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for her novel Jubilee, which became a national bestseller. Among the most formidable literary voices to emerge in the twentieth century, she will be remembered as one of the foremost transcribers of African American heritage.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781558610040 |
| ISBN 10 | 1558610049 |
| Title | How I Wrote Jubilee |
| Author | Margaret Walker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Feminist Press At Cuny |
| Year published | 1993-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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