Contributions in afro american and african studies contemporary black poets renaissance man from louisiana

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In his youth a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Arna Wendell Bontemps matured into a renaissance man in the broadest sense, a person fully engaged in the life of the intellect. He contributed vastly to the culture of his era through his own writings--fiction, plays, poetry, children's books, scholarship, and criticism--and advanced it through teaching, librarianship, and as a sponsor and patron of other artists. This detailed and fond biography provides a thorough analysis of Bontemps's private and public lives. Author Kirkland Jones is effective at portraying Bontemps's Creole family background and childhood in Louisiana and California, his roles as rebellious but devoted son and loving and supportive husband and father, his fertile contributions to the arts, and his abiding commitment to service, which is perhaps most in evidence in his building of African-American library collections at Fisk University. A colleague and friend of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and other outstanding African-American writers, Bontemps has been curiously neglected by biographers. Utilizing copious archival and interview materials in this carefully researched study, Kirkland Jones fills out the portrait of Bontemps that previously could only be glimpsed from biographies of his contemporaries and his published correspondence with them. In the process, factual errors about Bontemps's life are corrected. A work of painstaking scholarship, this biography nevertheless is written to appeal to young people and adults interested in this admirable and fascinating gentleman-scholar-poet as well as to students of American and African-American literature and cultural and intellectual history.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 21 augustus 1992

Aantal pagina's: 232

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Kirkland C. Jones

Hoofduitgeverij: Praeger Publishers Inc

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 156 mm

Product lengte: 235 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 156 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm

Verpakking lengte: 235 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 595 g

EAN: 9780313280139

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