7/8/2023 0 Comments Echo tree henry dumas![]() ![]() ![]() In 1968, at the age of thirty-three, he was shot and killed by a New York City Transit Authority police officer. Upon his return, Dumas became active in the civil rights movement, married, had two sons, attended Rutgers University, worked for IBM, and taught at Hiram College in Ohio and at Southern Illinois University. He joined the air force in 1953 and spent a year on the Arabian Peninsula. ![]() 0 Ratings 3 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Not in Library. Echo Tree The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas by Henry Dumas. Henry Dumas was born in Sweet Home, Arkansas, in 1934 and moved to Harlem at the age of ten. Echo tree by Henry Dumas, Aug 18, 2020, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance edition, audio cd. Humming with life, Dumas’s stories create a collage of midcentury Black experiences, interweaving religious metaphor, African cosmologies, diasporic folklore, and America’s history of slavery and systemic racism. ![]() From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on real, magical, and mythic quests. Africanfuturism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction: Henry Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America.Ĭhampioned by Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley, Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. ![]()
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