John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism
A biography of John Oliver Killens that traces the history and influence of Black literary activism through his life and work.
Work Information
A writer’s life becomes the history of a movement.
Gilyard follows Killens’s fiction and public commitments to show how Black writers built networks of literary and political struggle. The book blends close reading with cultural history.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Georgia Pr
- Published
- 2011-11-01
- Pages
- 418 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 2.59 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780820340319
- ISBN-10
- 0820340316
- Price
- 7794 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/African American Studies
<p>John Oliver Killens’s politically charged novels <i>And Then We Heard the Thunder</i> and <i>The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd</i>, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His works of fiction and nonfiction, the most famous of which is his novel <i>Youngblood</i>, have been translated into more than a dozen languages. An influential novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and teacher, he was the founding chair of the Harlem Writers Guild and mentored a generation of black writers at Fisk, Howard, Columbia, and elsewhere. Killens is recognized as the spiritual father of the Black Arts Movement. In this first major biography of Killens, Keith Gilyard examines the life and career of the man who was perhaps the premier African American writer-activist from the 1950s to the 1980s.<br><br>Gilyard extends his focus to the broad boundaries of Killens’s times and literary achievement—from the Old Left to the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Figuring prominently in these pages are the many important African American artists and political figures connected to the author from the 1930s to the 1980s—W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Alphaeus Hunton, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte, and Maya Angelou, among others.</p>
KEITH GILYARD is distinguished professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.
Reviews
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From Georgia's Jim Crow, emerges a mesmerizing writer, thanks to Keith Gilyard's brilliant biography
Powerful portrait of an under rated writer..beautifully researched and told story of the emergence of an important thinker, activist, and literary giant in the racist society of America. The supportive and nurturing family of black artists who urge him forward draw back the curtain on a treasure trove. His books will take your breath away and invade your dreams.Killens' novels describe the problems of ordinary (brilliant!) black people in a brutal Jim Crow wold and the contradictions of political life openly...Youngblood especially is a daring work of fiction that belongs with the work of Malraux, Zola, and Dostoyevsky.
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