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Since then, the publication of more volumes on West and her circle testify to popular and academic interest in under-represented artists of the Harlem Renaissance, many of whom appeared first in West's literary magazine, \u003ci\u003eChallenge\u003c\/i\u003e (1934-1937). Challenge included poems by West's cousin Helene Johnson as well as by her friends Lucia Mae Pitts, Waring Cuney, Pauli Murray, Grace Walker, Mae Cowdery, Marcia Prendergast, and Bessie Calhoun Bird. West also published work by her romantic partner Marian Minus and by Juanita DeShields (the first Black Canadian graduate of McGill University) and the Trinidadian author Alfred Mendes. She included artwork by Mildred Jones and journalism by Eslanda Robeson and Dorothy Peterson. In addition to her editorial activities, West corresponded with important African American musicians including Maud Cuney Hare, Alberta Hunter, and Henry T. Burleigh, and with sculptors Augusta Savage and Richmond Barthé. Just as West mentored others, she was encouraged by such academic luminaries as Columbia Professors Blanche Colton Williams and Dorothy Scarborough, and by the controversial novelist Erskine Caldwell.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The new Introduction to \u003ci\u003eWild Grape\u003c\/i\u003e will include fresh research on these individuals, many of whom formed part of West's social and artistic circle. Lucia Pitts, for example, was a poet who served in the famous WAC (Women's Army Corps) 6888th Battalion. The work of Marian Minus and Mae Cowdery has received critical attention recently and they also merit closer investigation. The Boston writer and musicologist Maud Cuney Hare was an artistic mentor to West; her cousin Waring Cuney was a close friend: both will receive more attention in the paperback edition. The artist Mildred Jones accompanied West and twenty other young African Americans to Russia in 1932 as participants in an ultimately aborted propaganda film on race relations in America; Jones studied with the important Russian Modernist painter Aleksandr Deyneka.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The original edition of \u003ci\u003eWild Grape\u003c\/i\u003e cites two stories about West's Russian experiences (penned under the pseudonym Mary Christopher in 1934), \"Room in Red Square\" and \"Russian Correspondence,\" but the volume does not include the actual stories. The stories are interesting because they shed light on West's unrequited romance with Langston Hughes and her relationships with other members of the group, and they offer a unique perspective on daily life in the U.S.S.R. Both stories will be published in the new edition, along with a detailed discussion of new research about West's visit to Russia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A third uncollected story, \"Cook\" (1934), written by West under the pseudonym Jane Isaac will also be included. This story is extremely important to West's oeuvre and her artistic development; it includes characters, themes, tropes, and plot lines that she expanded and developed in her two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Living Is Easy\u003c\/i\u003e (1948) and \u003ci\u003eThe Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Since 2005, new material has been added to the West archive in Harvard's Schlesinger Library. The section of \u003ci\u003eWild Grape\u003c\/i\u003e devoted to West's correspondence will include additional unpublished letters which underscore West's dedication to African American art and culture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book includes the Benson-West family tree in Appendix II. Several scholars have expressed appreciation for this information which has not been published elsewhere; the chart will be updated to include the birth of several of West's descendants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53073490215185,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53073490673937,"sku":"NGR9781625349538","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781625349538.jpg?v=1769649138"},{"product_id":"where-the-wild-grape-grows-book-dorothy-west-9781625347053","title":"Where the Wild Grape Grows","description":"The first book-length study of Dorothy West, now with new writings and insights     Originally published in 2005, WheretheWildGrapeGrows:SelectedWritings, 1930–1950 was the first book-length study of Dorothy West's work, providing a rich and insightful profile of one of the last surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance.     Although West (1907–1998) is often remembered for her novels of Boston's African American community and her lifelong ties to Martha's Vineyard, her career was also shaped by her formative years in New York, where she moved among the era's most influential writers, artists, and political figures, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and many others. Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell document these early decades with care, recovering out-of-print, little-known, and unpublished works, alongside evocative family photographs, to illuminate West's distinctive voice and vision.    This expanded second edition includes three important pieces not featured in the first edition: West's story \"Cook,\" which foreshadows tropes of racial and gendered double consciousness and geographic mobility later developed in her novels; and her two Russian texts, \"Room in Red Square\" and \"Russian Correspondence.\" This new edition situates West's writings within the larger history of African American artists' fascination with and ambivalence toward the U.S.S.R. The editors also extend their analysis beyond West's early life to consider her final three decades, a period of renewed creativity and recognition.    With a revised, enhanced introduction and a richer selection of West's writings, this updated second edition is an indispensable resource for understanding the full scope of Dorothy West's life, art, and enduring legacy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53073500864785,"sku":"NGR9781625347053","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53654432055569,"sku":"NIN9781625347053","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781625347053.jpg?v=1780739163"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/author-books-by-dorothy-west.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}