Infants of the Spring (Lost American Fiction) - Hardcover

Thurman, Wallace

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809308649 ISBN 13: 9780809308644

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979

Synopsis

In this satire which shows the role of black writers and artists during the American Renaissance of the 1920s,Wallace Thurman proved himself to be a black writer who suffered no fools of any color, a modern satirist who, as re計ublication here shows, was very much ahead of his time.

Thurman was a novelist, ghost writer, editor of two Harlem magazines, and a playwright. His satire, derived from close personal observation, was directed primarily at the Harlem or Negro Re要aissance, which began in 1925.As John A. Williams points out in his Afterword to this new edition, Thurman and “nearly everyone with artistic as計irations came to New York then, black and white; those were the merging days of the Harlem Renaissance, the Lost Generation, and the Jazz Age—really one extended explosion of American lit苟rature, and there were influences passed between the groups.” The Renaissance flourished through 1929,then faded.

Thurman’s satire came too late—1932,after its main target, the Harlem Renaissance, lay shrouded in the Great Depression woe that obscured or proclaimed frivolous all but proletarian art. Yet Infants of the Spring, stillborn then, lives today. By re-creating the bohemian lives of black artists of the 1920s,Thur衫an corrects the assumption that one of America’s most creative decades owes its energy to whites alone.

About this title

About the Author

John A. Williams, poet and novelist, presently lives in Teaneck, New Jersey. His novels include One for New York, Night Song, Sissie, The Man Who Cried IAm, Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, Cap負ain Blackman, and The Junior Bachelor Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809308649
• ISBN 13: 9780809308644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Bruccoli Professor Matthew J.