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Overview

Henry Dumas' fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed only with wit, words, and wisdom. Championed by Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, and Quincy Troupe, Dumas' books have long been out of print. All of his short fiction is collected here, for the first time, and includes several previously unpublished stories. 

Henry Dumas was born in Sweet Home, Arkansas, moved to Harlem, joined the air force, attended Rutgers, worked for IBM, and taught at Hiram College in Ohio and Southern Illinois University. In 1968, at the age of 33, he was shot and killed by a New York Transit Authority policeman.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781713554530
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publication date: 08/18/2020
Edition description: Unabridged
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Henry Dumas was born in Sweet Home, Arkansas, in 1934 and moved to Harlem at the age of ten. He joined the air force in 1953 and spent a year on the Arabian Peninsula. After returning, Dumas became active in the civil rights movement, married Loretta Ponton, had two sons, attended Rutgers University, worked for IBM, and taught at Hiram College in Ohio and at Southern Illinois University’s Experiment in Higher Education in East St. Louis. In 1968, at the age of thirty-three, he was shot and killed by a New York City Transit Authority police officer.

Eugene B. Redmond was named poet laureate of East St. Louis in 1976, the same year Doubleday published his Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A Critical History. Redmond taught along-side Henry Dumas at Southern Illinois University, where he is currently an emeritus professor of English. Since 1968, he has edited and helped publish most of Dumas’s poetry and fiction.

John Keene's
recent books include the story collection Counternarratives (New Directions, 2016) and several books of poetry. He has also translated the Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat Books, 2014) and numerous other authors from Portuguese, French, and Spanish. His recent honors include an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, and a 2018 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He chairs the department of African American and African Studies and teaches English and creative writing at Rutgers University–Newark.

Table of Contents

Introductionix
Forewordxxxix
Take This River!1
Ark of Bones
Ark of Bones9
Echo Tree23
The Crossing31
Goodbye, Sweetwater41
A Boll of Roses57
Double Nigger85
A Harlem Game98
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?105
Strike and Fade111
Fon116
Rope of Wind
The Marchers131
The Eagle the Dove and the Blackbird137
Scout139
Harlem162
The University of Man176
Rope of Wind189
Children of the Sun205
Devil Bird209
Invasion221
The Lake225
The Distributors229
Thrust Counter Thrust242
Six Days You Shall Labor255
The Man Who Could See Through Fog278
The Voice296
Thalia310
The Metagenesis of Sunra
Rain God319
The Bewitching Bag323
My Brother, My Brother!339
The Metagenesis of Sunra345
Riot or Revolt?362
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