Echo tree : the collected short fiction of Henry Dumas

Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968, author.

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Henry Dumas's fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed with only their wit, their words, and their wisdom. With an astonishing ear for language, Dumas creates a mythology of the psychological, spiritual, and political development of African American culture by interweaving e...

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African Americans Fiction

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ISBN:

9781566896078
156689607X

Edition:

Second edition

Description:

xxxiv, 381 pages ; 22 cm

Contents:

Take This River!
Ark of Bones
Echo Tree
The Crossing
Goodbye, Sweetwater
A Boll of Roses
Double Nigger
A Harlem Game
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Strike and Fade
Fon
The Marchers
The Eagle the Dove and the Blackbird
Scout
Harlem
The University of Man
Rope of Wind
Children of the Sun
Devil Bird
Invasion
The Lake
The Distributors
Thrust Counter Thrust
Six Days You Shall Labor
The Man Who Could See Through Fog
The Voice
Thalia
Rain God
The Bewitching Bag
My Brother, My Brother!
The Metagenesis of Sunra
Riot or Revolt?

LCCN:

2018018481

Control Number:

3069475

Other Authors:

Keene, John, 1965- writer of introduction
Redmond, Eugene, editor, writer of foreword

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