At the dusk of dawn : selected poetry and prose of Albery Allson Whitman /
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| Author / Creator: | Whitman, Albery Allson, 1851-1901. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2009. |
| Description: | vi, 331 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Northeastern library of Black literature |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7796211 |
| Summary: | Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901), born the child of slaves in Kentucky, made his livelihood as a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He also produced a prodigious amount of poetry. Many of these works--replete with "mulatto" figures and vignettes about black, Native, and white subjects in the frontier spaces of the Midwest and Florida--prefigure current preoccupations in literary and cultural studies.<br> <br> This collection includes selections from all of his major narrative poems, along with other poems, letters, and a sermon. By collecting and republishing these works--many of which have been out of print for more than a century--this volume restores Whitman's standing as one of the most important post-Civil War African American writers.<br> |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 331 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781555537074 1555537073 |
