Resultaten voor 'dorothy west'
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Where the Wild Grape Grows
Selected Writings, 1930–1950"Mitchell and Davis's volume contributes to current reappraisals of West, expanding our knowledge of her work and her personal history in order to elevate her from bit player in the Harlem Renaissance to a more significant figure in 20th century African American literature. Answering some questions and leaving others open for interpretation, this treatment of West reconfigures that frustrating gap into an invitation for further study while pointing the way towards future considerations of West and her milieu."—Rychetta N. Watkins, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association "This collection of West's work will certainly help readers see that she did not simply 'fall silent' in the 1940s only to return to writing to complete The Wedding in the 1980s. This book enables us to see her as a more thoroughly accomplished writer. It is an important work that will lead to a serious revision of West's place in the canon of African American writers."—Joseph T. Skerrett, author of Literature, Race, and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities"What a great idea to gather in one volume the many previously published and unpublished writings of Dorothy West! . . . This edition throws special light on West's talent and milieu, conveying a complex sense of her as a person in relationship to her family life and commitments, her artistic peers, and her intimate relationships. The editors' introduction and the biographical essay set the right tone for the project, appropriate for both the academic and the general reader."—Amritjit Singh, coeditor of The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader
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Where the Wild Grape Grows
Selected Writings, 1930–1950"This collection of West's work will certainly help readers see that she did not simply 'fall silent' in the 1940s only to return to writing to complete The Wedding in the 1980s. This book enables us to see her as a more thoroughly accomplished writer. It is an important work that will lead to a serious revision of West's place in the canon of African American writers."—Joseph T. Skerrett, author of Literature, Race, and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities "What a great idea to gather in one volume the many previously published and unpublished writings of Dorothy West! . . . This edition throws special light on West's talent and milieu, conveying a complex sense of her as a person in relationship to her family life and commitments, her artistic peers, and her intimate relationships. The editors' introduction and the biographical essay set the right tone for the project, appropriate for both the academic and the general reader."—Amritjit Singh, coeditor of The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader
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The Wedding
This incredible novel by the last surviving writer of the Harlem Renaissance deserves to be discovered by a new generation of readers. Introduced by Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People, and now reissued in our beautiful Classics With Bite series.
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De bruiloft
Op het eiland Martha’s Vineyard, voor de kust van Massachusetts, ligt ‘het Ovaal’: een pittoresk parkje omringd door vakantiehuizen, waar elke zomer een hechte zwarte gemeenschap samenkomt. Het is 1953. Morgen trouwt Shelby Coles, de oogappel van een van de voornaamste families, met Meade, een witte jazzmuzikant uit New York. In het Ovaal hecht men aan kleur en status. Waarom Shelby, die had kunnen kiezen uit een zee van begerenswaardige mannen met de juiste kleur en achtergrond, haar leven vergooit aan een witte man zonder naam of aanzien, begrijpt niemand. In elegant en ontroerend proza vertelt Dorothy West hoe Shelby’s voorouders zich hebben geprobeerd vrij te vechten van de ketenen van klasse en ras. Op fijngevoelige wijze verweeft West verleden en heden, Noord en Zuid, zwart en wit. Zo legt ze gaandeweg bloot hoe de keuzes van de familie Coles in elke volgende generatie doorwerken tot de dag van Shelby’s bruiloft, waarop ze zich realiseert hoezeer de ballast van haar familie haar eigen leven beïnvloedt.
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Die Hochzeit
Shelby und Meade wollen heiraten. Doch in dem elitären Zirkel auf Martha's Vineyard sind nicht alle mit der Verbindung einverstanden. Denn Shelby stammt aus einer Schwarzen Familie - und Meade ist weiß. Ausgehend von einem Sommertag erzählt Dorothy West aus dem Leben von fünf Generationen einer Schwarzen Familie. Die junge Shelby, Augapfel der Schwarzen Gemeinschaft auf der Insel Martha's Vineyard, will den New Yorker Jazzpianisten Meade heiraten. Doch Meade ist weiß und hat in den Augen der Familie Cole wenig zu bieten. Sollte es nicht lieber ein Mann aus den eigenen Reihen sein? Die Insel-Gemeinde besteht aus einem elitären Zirkel der Schwarzen Bourgeoisie. Die Angst vor Veränderung ist hier groß, und sie trägt ihre Wurzeln in langen Jahren der Unterdrückung. Doch am Ende muss Shelby die Entscheidung treffen, ob sie ihrem Herzen folgt, und wohin es sie führt. Die Wiederentdeckung eines großen Klassikers der afroamerikanischen Literatur.
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The Living Is Easy
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The Wedding
In The Wedding, West brilliantly portrays the ferocity of class, race, and gender distinctions within family, groups, and generations - Entertainment Weekly West published her second novel, The Wedding (1995), at the age of 87. It received an ecstatic reaction ... Set on the Vineyard on a single summer weekend, The Wedding is narrated by an irresistibly droll omniscient voice that veers across centuries to trace the knotty, reverberating heritage of an affluent African American family ... timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender - PAris Review The tranquility of a late summer weekend in 1953 is shattered by a tragic accident in this spare, affecting novel by one of the last surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance ... Through the ancestral histories of the Coles family, West subtly reveals the ways in which color can burden and codify behavior. The author makes her points with a delicate hand, maneuvering with confidence and ease through a sometimes incendiary subject ... a triumph. - Publisher's Weekly You have only to read the first page to know that you are in the hands of a writer, pure and simple. At the end, it's as though we've been invited not so much to a wedding as to a full-scale opera, only to find that one great artist is belting out all the parts. She brings down the house - New York Times West is a wonderful storyteller, painting vivid and memorable scenes of the life and plight of African Americans from slavery to the fifties. The Wedding is an engrossing tale - USA Today
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The Richer, The Poorer
Stories, Sketches and ReminiscencesAn incredible collection of writing - both essays and short stories - spanning the long career of Dorothy West. Includes a new introduction by Diana Evans.
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The Wedding
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Where the Wild Grape Grows
Selected Writings, 1930-1950Dorothy West (1907-1998) is known as a member of the Harlem Renaissance. In this book, Professors Mitchell and Davis provide a carefully researched profile of West and her circle that serves as an introduction to a collection of her out of print, little known, or unpublished writings, supplemented by many family photographs.
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The Richer, the Poorer
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De bruiloft
E-bookOp het eiland Martha’s Vineyard, voor de kust van Massachusetts, ligt ‘het Ovaal’: een pittoresk parkje omringd door vakantiehuizen, waar elke zomer een hechte zwarte gemeenschap samenkomt. Het is 1953. Morgen trouwt Shelby Coles, de oogappel van een van de voornaamste families, met Meade, een witte jazzmuzikant uit New York. In het Ovaal hecht men aan kleur en status. Waarom Shelby, die had kunnen kiezen uit een zee van begerenswaardige mannen met de juiste kleur en achtergrond, haar leven vergooit aan een witte man zonder naam of aanzien, begrijpt niemand. In elegant en ontroerend proza vertelt Dorothy West hoe Shelby’s voorouders zich hebben geprobeerd vrij te vechten van de ketenen van klasse en ras. Op fijngevoelige wijze verweeft West verleden en heden, Noord en Zuid, zwart en wit. Zo legt ze gaandeweg bloot hoe de keuzes van de familie Coles in elke volgende generatie doorwerken tot de dag van Shelby’s bruiloft, waarop ze zich realiseert hoezeer de ballast van haar familie haar eigen leven beïnvloedt.
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