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Echo
Tree: the Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
Henry Dumas
Edited and with a Foreword by Eugene B. Redmond
Critical Introduction by John S. Wright
The
sixth title in Coffee House Press's acclaimed Black
Arts Movement Series.
Henry
Dumas was an extraordinarily gifted, deeply admired,
highly influential, and tragically short-lived writer.
Fabulist in style, Dumas's stories are a masterful synthesis
of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity.
From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem,
his characters embark on real, magical, and mythic quests.
With an astonishing ear for language, Dumas creates
a mythology of the psychological, spiritual, and political
development of African American culture by interweaving
Christian metaphor, African cosmologies, music, black
diasporan folklore, and America's history of slavery
and endemic racism. Championed by Toni Morrison, Amiri
Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks and many others, Henry Dumas's
stories belong among the timeless works of American
literature and are ripe for discovery now. For the first
time and on the 35th anniversary of Dumas's shocking
death, Echo Tree brings together all of his short
fiction, including several previously unpublished stories.
Novels
available in the Coffee House Press Black Arts Movement
Series:
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