After a Thousand Tears: Poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson (English) Hardcover Boo

Description: After a Thousand Tears by Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jimmy Worthy II, II, Professor Maureen Honey Georgia Douglas Johnson, the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance, devoted much of her artistic imagination to indexing African American womens interior life and advancing the means through which to achieve interracial cooperation. This volume is the only extant poetry collection that Johnson authored between 1928 and 1962. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966) was the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Born as Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp in 1877 in Atlanta, Georgia, Johnson devoted much of her artistic imagination to indexing African American womens interior life and advancing the means through which to achieve interracial cooperation. After a Thousand Tears represents the only extant poetry collection that Johnson authored between 1928 and 1962, and it illustrates her more nuanced and transgressive prescription for gender, racial, and national advancement.Although scholars have critically examined Johnsons four previously published collections of poetry (The Heart of a Woman [1918], Bronze [1922], An Autumn Love Cycle [1928], and Share My World [1962]), they have never engaged After a Thousand Tears. Jimmy Worthy II located the unpublished work while conducting archival research at Emory Universitys Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Worthy discovered that while Johnson intended to publish Tears with Padma Publications of Bombay in 1947, the project never came to fruition. Published now, for the first time, this volume features eighty-one poems that offer Johnsons intimate and forthright sensibility toward African American womens lived experiences during and following the Harlem Renaissance. Author Biography Jimmy Worthy II (Editor) JIMMY WORTHY II is an assistant professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Review Jimmy Worthy IIs introduction to After a Thousand Tears provides readers with a new way to understand Georgia Douglas Johnson and her poetry. In this previously unpublished and recently recovered volume, Worthy identifies a poetic presence of what he terms discursive veiling and thus explores how Johnson persistently navigated contemporary racial and gender restrictions to create an open space in which to express her free, individual self. Drawing on literary scholarship from the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance to the present, this valuable, insightful study reveals how Johnsons poems both reflect and defy the era in which they were written while remaining a beacon for our own. * editor of The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement *This book is a welcomed daylighting of work by the prolific and profound twentieth-century writer Georgia Douglas Johnson. It is a valuable, perhaps even an invaluable, asset to scholarly communities in literature, Black studies, gender studies, history, and more. * author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mothers Garden *Professor Worthys robust and sensitive re-presentation of Georgia Douglas Johnson for a new era is literary lineage making of a very high order. Long live GDJ—and this scholarly work! * author of Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance *In excavating a previously unpublished volume by Georgia Douglas Johnson from the archives, scholar Jimmy Worthy II has engaged in extraordinary ancestral tending. As a poet myself, I feel incredibly grateful to receive this new gift of Johnsons verse. * author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois *Despite the fact that Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the most prolific, popular, and influential poets of the Harlem Renaissance, she has languished in neglect. Thanks to the work of Black feminist scholars such as Maureen Honey, Claudia Tate, Gloria Hull, and Evie Shockley, we have more accurate and insightful critical frameworks for reading Harlem Renaissance women writers, many of whom were maligned for their alleged lack of racial politics or for their alleged escapism through romance. And now we have, in After a Thousand Tears, a recovery project that gives us a fuller and deeper sense of Johnsons poetic voice and vision. Here, Jimmy Worthy II applies these Black feminist frameworks to give us a portrait of Johnson fully alive to her cultural and political moment. In particular, Worthy provides a critical introduction that explains how the masculinist politics of Harlem Renaissance architects, combined with the racism of the era, created severely circumscribed spaces within which Black women writers were compelled to maneuver. From there, he goes on to read for Johnsons ability to manipulate and critique these spaces in order to create her own poetic voice. The lyric poetry of After a Thousand Tears and Worthys critical introduction make a monumental contribution to our understanding of Georgia Douglas Johnsons artistry and the complex racial and gender politics of the Harlem Renaissance more generally. For scholars and students alike, After a Thousand Tears is an essential volume. * author of Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown *Jimmy Worthy IIs recovery of this text opens a new chapter for arguably one of the most prolific poets of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection, with Worthys comprehensive introduction, makes a significant contribution to the study of African American womens poetics and literary history. * Legacy * Promotional A newly discovered collection of poetry from a renowned writer of the Harlem Renaissance Long Description Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) was the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Born as Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp in 1877 in Atlanta, Georgia, Johnson devoted much of her artistic imagination to indexing African American womens interior life and advancing the means through which to achieve interracial cooperation. After a Thousand Tears represents the only extant poetry collection that Johnson authored between 1928 and 1962, and it illustrates her more nuanced and transgressive prescription for gender, racial, and national advancement. Although scholars have critically examined Johnsons four previously published collections of poetry ( The Heart of a Woman [1918], Bronze [1922], An Autumn Love Cycle [1928], and Share My World [1962]), they have never engaged After a Thousand Tears . Jimmy Worthy II located the unpublished work while conducting archival research at Emory Universitys Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Worthy discovered that while Johnson intended to publish Tears with Padma Publications of Bombay in 1947, the project never came to fruition. Published now, for the first time, this volume features eighty-one poems that offer Johnsons intimate and forthright sensibility toward African American womens lived experiences during and following the Harlem Renaissance. Review Quote This book is a welcomed daylighting of work by the prolific and profound twentieth-century writer Georgia Douglas Johnson. It is a valuable, perhaps even an invaluable, asset to scholarly communities in literature, Black studies, gender studies, history, and more. Promotional "Headline" A newly discovered collection of poetry from a renowned writer of the Harlem Renaissance Description for Reader Jimmy Worthy II (Editor) JIMMY WORTHY II is an assistant professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Details ISBN0820362832 Author Professor Maureen Honey Short Title After a Thousand Tears Publisher University of Georgia Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0820362832 ISBN-13 9780820362830 Format Hardcover Subtitle Poems Series Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications Imprint University of Georgia Press Place of Publication Georgia Country of Publication United States Edited by Jimmy Worthy II Illustrations 2 b&w images AU Release Date 2023-03-01 NZ Release Date 2023-03-01 UK Release Date 2023-03-01 DEWEY 811.52 Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 168 Publication Date 2023-03-01 US Release Date 2023-03-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:140706018;

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