Ollie Miss (eBook)

George Wylie Henderson (Autor)

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2018
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-83267-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A key novel of the Harlem Renaissance, this story recounts a young African American woman's attempts to build a life in the poor, rural South during the early decades of the 20th century.

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"e;Ollie Miss is a character you don't forget ... this book is part of American as well as Black American literature."e; — Academic Library Book ReviewMen are paralyzed in the presence of Ollie Miss, stunned by her vivid sensuality. Combining beauty, strength, composure, and self-sufficiency, she emerges from nowhere to take an all-black backwoods settlement in Macon Country, Georgia, by storm. Despite her poverty and her lack of education, Ollie Miss is determined to make a life for herself as she struggles to find independence, romance, and fulfillment.One of the key novels of the 1930s Harlem Renaissance, Ollie Miss was published to widespread critical acclaim. A major contribution to the rich legacy of African-American literature, the evocative tale unfolds in the early decades of the twentieth century. Set amid a community of sharecroppers in the deep South, the story provides an atmospheric record of the period of social change that culminated in the civil rights movement.

Autor

George Wylie Henderson (1904–1965), a writer who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, was born in Alabama, attended the Tuskegee Institute, and moved to New York as a young man. He worked for the New York Daily News as a printer and also wrote stories published in the News and in Redbook Magazine. He is the author of two novels, Ollie Miss (1935) and Jule (1946).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2018
• Reihe/Serie: African American
• Illustrationen: Lowell Leroy Balcolm
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: 1930s • African American • america • American • backwoods settlement • Beauty • black af history • black american • black authors • Black Female Lead • black heroine • black history books for kids adults • Black History Month • composure • female protagonist • Fulfillment • Georgia • Harlem Renaissance • heroine • Independence • lack of education • macon country • making a life • Poverty • Romance • self sufficiency • sensuality • Strength
• ISBN-10: 0-486-83267-8 / 0486832678
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-83267-8 / 9780486832678