African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction–Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America.
Henry Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, the present and the ancestral. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on real, magical, and mythic quests. Humming with life, Dumas’s stories create a collage of mid-twentieth-century Black experiences, interweaving religious metaphor, African cosmologies, diasporic folklore, and America’s history of slavery and systemic racism.
Author: Henry Dumas
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781566896078
Language: English
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