Echo tree : the collected short fiction of Henry Dumas

Author

Henry Dumas

Call Number

• FICTION DUMA (CEN)

Publication Information

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2018]

Physical Description

381 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Henry Dumas's 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 with only their wit, words, and wisdom. With an astonishing ear for language, Dumas creates a mythology of the psychological, spiritual, and political development of African American culture by interweaving elements of Christian metaphor, African tradition, southern folklore, American music and America's history of slavery and endemic racism. Although championed by many great writers of his generation, Dumas's books have long been out of print"--

Contents

• Take this river! Ark of bones
• Ark of bones
• Echo tree
• The crossing
• Goodbye, Sweetwater
• A boll of roses
• Double nigger
• A Harlem game
• Will the circle be unbroken?
• Strike and fade
• Fon
• Rope of wind
• The marchers
• The eagle the dove and the blackbird
• Scout
• Harlem
• The university of man
• Rope of wind
• Children of the sun
• Devil bird
• Invasion
• The lake
• Distributors
• Thrust counter thrust
• Six days you shall labor
• The man who could see through fog
• The voice
• Thalia
• The metagenesis of Sunra
• Rain god
• The bewitching bag
• My brother, my brother!
• The metagenesis of Sunra
• Riot or revolt?