Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker.

Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker.

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood constitutes the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker's literary career. As they discuss Walker's work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the...

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Other Authors: Graham, Maryemma (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Walker, Margaret, > 1915-1998 > Criticism and interpretation.
Walker, Margaret, > 1915-1998
1900-1999
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
African American women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
African American women in literature
African Americans in literature
Women and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology
  • Introduction: The Most Famous Person Nobody Knows
  • PART 1 The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker
  • "I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People": The Emergence of Margaret Walker
  • Black Women Writers at Work: An Interview with Margaret Walker
  • Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South
  • Down from the Mountaintop
  • The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism": Revolution, Vision, History
  • PART 2 From For My People to This Is My Century: The Poetry of Margaret Walker
  • The "Etched Flame" of Margaret Walker: Literary and Biblical Re-Creation in Southern History
  • Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in the Poetry of Margaret Walker
  • "Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's Poem of the Century
  • Folkloric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry
  • Performing Community: Margaret Walker's Use of Poetic "Folk Voice"
  • The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home
  • For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation
  • Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century
  • PART 3 Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice
  • Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works of Margaret Walker
  • "Oh Freedom": Women and History in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
  • Black Folk Elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
  • From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen: The Black Female Folk Tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
  • "Rumblings" in Folk Traditions Served Southern Style
  • The Use of Spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
  • The Violation of Voice: Revising the Slave Narrative
  • Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight
  • The Black Woman as Mulatto: A Personal Response to the Character of Vyry.
  • Epilogue: "To Capture a Vision Fair": Margaret Walker and the Predicament of the African American Woman Intellectual
  • Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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