Henry Dumas (1934–1968)
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Værker af Henry Dumas
Ark of Bones {short story} 2 eksemplarer
Will The Circle Be Unbroken? 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (2000) — Bidragyder — 526 eksemplarer
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 99 eksemplarer
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Bidragyder — 99 eksemplarer
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1934-07-20
- Dødsdag
- 1968-05-23
- Begravelsessted
- Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, New York, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Sweet Home, Arkansas, USA
- Dødssted
- 125th Street Station, IRT, New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Sweet Home, Arkansas, USA
Harlem, New York, USA
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Carbondale, Illinois, USA - Uddannelse
- Rutgers University
- Erhverv
- teacher
civil rights activist - Relationer
- Redmond, Eugene (colleague)
Morrison, Toni (editor) - Organisationer
- U.S. Air Force
Southern Illinois University
Medlemmer
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 10
- Also by
- 14
- Medlemmer
- 200
- Popularitet
- #110,008
- Vurdering
- 4.1
- Anmeldelser
- 2
- ISBN
- 18
- Udvalgt
- 2
To understand these wonderfully written tales fully, is to understand their author, Henry Dumas. Born in a small, predominantly black town of Sweet Home, Arkansas , Dumas was raised in the church until moving to New York City. After graduating from high school in 1953, he joined the Air Force, stationed in San Antonio originally and then once more in Saudi Arabia. These three areas shaped Dumas' personality and writing significantly, each contributing to the content and artistic style of his works. Sweet Home, a small rural Southern town influenced Dumas to incorporate folklore and Christian inspired themes, while northern urban Harlem gave Dumas a new cultural and political perspective during times of social unrest, uprising and rebellion, and Saudi Arabia broadening Dumas' spiritual consciousness and connection with a Higher force.
The timely release of this collection is essential when clearly there is much progress to be made socially and Dumas writes a path forward.… (mere)