After a Thousand Tears (eBook)

Poems

Jimmy Worthy II (Herausgeber)

Georgia Douglas Johnson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-6284-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966) was the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Born as Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp in 1877 in Atlanta, Georgia, Johnson devoted much of her artistic imagination to indexing African American women’s interior life and advancing the means through which to achieve interracial cooperation. After a Thousand Tears represents the only extant poetry collection that Johnson authored between 1928 and 1962, and it illustrates her more nuanced and transgressive prescription for gender, racial, and national advancement.

Although scholars have critically examined Johnson’s four previously published collections of poetry (The Heart of a Woman [1918], Bronze [1922], An Autumn Love Cycle [1928], and Share My World [1962]), they have never engaged After a Thousand Tears. Jimmy Worthy II located the unpublished work while conducting archival research at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Worthy discovered that while Johnson intended to publish Tears with Padma Publications of Bombay in 1947, the project never came to fruition. Published now, for the first time, this volume features eighty-one poems that offer Johnson’s intimate and forthright sensibility toward African American women’s lived experiences during and following the Harlem Renaissance.

Autor

Jimmy Worthy II (Editor)
JIMMY WORTHY II is an assistant professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications
• Reihe/Serie: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications Ser.
• Reihe/Serie: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications Ser.
• Einführung: Jimmy Worthy II
• Vorwort: Maureen Honey
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b&w images
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: african american poetry • Atlanta poets • Georgia poets • Georgia Writers Hall of Fame • Harlem Renaissance • Jean Toomer • Langston Hughes • literary salons • NAACP • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • New Negro Little Theatre movement • S Street Salon • The Crisis Magazine • Washington, D.C. poets • W.E.B. Du Bois • William Stanley Braithwaite • Women's Poetry • zora neale hurston
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-6284-0 / 0820362840
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6284-7 / 9780820362847