"Winds Can Wake Up the Dead": An Eric Walrond Reader / Edition 1

by Eric D. Walrond, Louis J. Parascandola

Overview

A new anthology of works by a major writer from the New Negro Movement.

Eric Walrond (1898-1966), a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement, is a seminal writer of Black diasporic life, but much of his work is not readily available. This new anthology brings together a broad sampling of Walrond's writings, including not only selections from his celebrated Tropic Death (1926) but also other stories, essays, and reviews. Louis J. Parascandola's introduction to the collection provides the most complete description to date of Walrond's life and work. It brings together previously undocumented biographical information that situates him in the context of his times, and it offers both an overview and a renewed appreciation of his writings. This book restores Walrond to his proper place in the history of African American and Caribbean literature and is an essential reader for students of Black culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814327098
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	12/01/1998
Series:	African American Life Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Louis J. Parascandola is an associate professor of English at Long Island University.

What People are Saying About This

Professor Emeritus, Columbia Teachers College - Robert Bone

Eric Walrond, whose book of stories Tropic Death was a highlight of the Harlem Renaissance, has been all but invisible in histories and commentaries of the last few decades. This generous sampling of his essays and short fiction should do much to restore the attention and respect that he deserves.

Editorial Reviews

Eric Walrond, whose book of stories Tropic Death was a highlight of the Harlem Renaissance, has been all but invisible in histories and commentaries of the last few decades. This generous sampling of his essays and short fiction should do much to restore the attention and respect that he deserves.

professor emeritus, Columbia Teachers College - Robert Bone

Editor Parascandola has done an excellent job of providing introductory material and notes as well as selections from the writings of Eric Walrond. The introduction places Walrond in the pantheon of African American and Afro-Caribbean writers, as well as among his contemporaries in the Harlem Renaissance. Walrond was born in Guyana, grew up in Barbados and Panama, spent his early adulthood in the United States, and lived the remainder of his life in Europe. His peripatetic lifestyle not only affected his writing but was in many ways its subject. These selections provide a good mixture of Walrond's journalism--some of which appeared in Marcus Garvey's Negro World and Charles S. Johnson's Opportunity--as well as his fiction. Though some of Walrond's writing is more functional than literary, there is much in this collection of literary and historical interest. Recommended wherever there is an interest in African American literature and essential for most academic libraries. [Parascandola is an LJ reviewer.--Ed.]--Denise Johnson, Bradley Univ. Lib., Peoria, IL

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