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The Minister Primarily

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063079615
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Minister Primarily written by John Oliver Killens and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan. Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People’s Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to “find himself.” But this small sliver of a country in West Africa, recently freed from British colonial rule, is thrown into turmoil with the discovery of cobanium—a radioactive mineral 500 times more powerful than uranium, making it irresistible for greedy speculators, grifters, and charlatans. Overnight, outsiders descend upon the sleepy capital city looking for “a piece of the action.” When a plot to assassinate Guanaya’s leader is discovered, Jimmy Jay—a dead ringer for the Prime Minister—is enlisted in a counter scheme to foil the would-be coup. He will travel to America with half of Guanaya’s cabinet ministers to meet with the President of the United States and address the UN General Assembly, while the rest of the cabinet will remain in Guanaya with the real Prime Minister. What could go wrong? Everything. Set in the 1980s, this smart, funny, dazzlingly brilliant novel is a literary delight—and the final gift from an American literary legend.

John Oliver Killens

Author : Keith Gilyard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820341959
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book John Oliver Killens written by Keith Gilyard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His works of fiction and nonfiction, the most famous of which is his novel Youngblood, have been translated into more than a dozen languages. An influential novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and teacher, he was the founding chair of the Harlem Writers Guild and mentored a generation of black writers at Fisk, Howard, Columbia, and elsewhere. Killens is recognized as the spiritual father of the Black Arts Movement. In this first major biography of Killens, Keith Gilyard examines the life and career of the man who was perhaps the premier African American writer-activist from the 1950s to the 1980s. Gilyard extends his focus to the broad boundaries of Killens's times and literary achievement--from the Old Left to the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Figuring prominently in these pages are the many important African American artists and political figures connected to the author from the 1930s to the 1980s--W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Alphaeus Hunton, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte, and Maya Angelou, among others.

And Then We Heard The Thunder

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786256460
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book And Then We Heard The Thunder written by John Oliver Killens and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional portrayal of real events that occurred during WWII from Afro-American author John Oliver Killens, who had previously served in the Amphibian Forces in the South Pacific. Through his characters, the reader gains a close-to-the-bone account of what it was like to be a Negro soldier fighting in segregated units under racist commanding officers. The final chapters reveal one of the war’s best-kept secrets concerning the escalating racial tension between black American GIs and their white commanding officers. The story climaxes in a terrifying race riot, which took place on the seedy night streets of South Brisbane in March 1942. Editorial Reviews: “...a big and powerful, angry novel, pulsating with love and hate, laughter and tears, sex and violence, and all the other juices of life.”—Sidney Poitier “...that big, polyphonic, violent novel...calls James Jones to mind.”—Saturday Review “...A beautiful and powerful book.”—James Baldwin

Youngblood

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322018
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Youngblood written by John Oliver Killens and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Oliver Killens's landmark novel of social protest chronicles the lives of the Youngblood family and their friends in Crossroads, Georgia, from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. Its large cast of powerfully affecting characters includes Joe Youngblood, a tragic figure of heroic physical strength; Laurie Lee, his beautiful and strong-willed wife; Richard Myles, a young high school teacher from New York; and Robby, the Youngbloods' son, who takes the large risk of becoming involved in the labor movement.

The Cotillion, Or, One Good Bull is Half the Herd

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566891196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Cotillion, Or, One Good Bull is Half the Herd written by John Oliver Killens and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her social-climbing mother, and her prodigal boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature. Nominated for a Pulitzer in 1972, Killens's uproarious satire captures the conflicts within black society in the 1960s. The Cotillion is the fourth title in Coffee House Press's acclaimed Black Arts Movement series. John Oliver Killens was born in Macon, Georgia in 1916. Co-founder of the Harlem Writers Guild, he taught at Howard and Columbia Universities. His other novels include And Then We Heard the Thunder, and The Great Black Russian.

Great Black Russian

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Great Black Russian written by John Oliver Killens and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Pushkin was born into nineteenth-century czarist Russia at a time when the state and the church were supreme. The aristocracy was enamored of French culture and peasants were little more than slaves. The literati generally regarded the Russian language as ill fit for creative expression until Pushkin proved otherwise. His writing challenged the authority of the czar while his own wanton values gave rise to troubling guilt. Yet in his short and tumultuous lifetime, Pushkin rose to great prominence as Russia's most important poet and literary figure. In Great Black Russian, John Oliver Killens renders a sweeping fictional account of Alexander Pushkin, drawing on the conflicts, both internal and external, that continually assailed him. Of particular significance is Pushkin's African heritage on his mother's side. His great-grandfather, Ibrahim Hannibal, was an Ethiopian prince captured as a youth by Turks. Acquired not long after by the czar as an adornment for his court, the young man became known as "the Negro of Peter the Great" and was eventually named a general in the czar's army. Under the ancestral tutelage of his beloved maternal grandmother, Pushkin took pride in his African lineage. Yet he was ever conscious that it relegated him to the margins of society. Moreover, Pushkin suffered genuine emotional abuse at the hand of his mother for being the darkest, most Africanoid of her four children. Part Russian, part African, a poet, and a womanizer, the Alexander Pushkin of Killen's Great Black Russian romances change, revolution, and danger and yet in his interior turmoil withdraws into the realm of dreams and fantasy.

Black Man's Burden

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Black Man's Burden written by John Oliver Killens and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316492782
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book A Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man written by John Oliver Killens and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the life of the legendary steel driver of early railroad days who challenged the steam hammer to a steel driving contest.

Black Southern Voices

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Black Southern Voices written by John Oliver Killens and published by Plume. This book was released on 1992 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of fifty-six African-American Southern writers whose works address the living contradictions of the South.

African American Satire

Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263747
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book African American Satire written by Darryl Dickson-Carr and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Satire's real purpose as a literary genre is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and ultimately to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African-American satire and the vital role it has played. In the process he investigates African American literature, American literature, and the history of satire." --Book Jacket.

'Sippi

Author : John Oliver Killens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book 'Sippi written by John Oliver Killens and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the voting rights struggles of African Americans during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Where the New World Is

Author : Martyn Bone
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351857
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Where the New World Is written by Martyn Bone and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal migration) and economic globalization. The writers discussed by Bone emphasize how migration and labor have reconfigured the region’s relation to the nation and a range of transnational scales: hemispheric (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti), transatlantic/Black Atlantic (Denmark, England, Mauritania), and transpacific/global southern (Australia, China, Vietnam). Writers under consideration include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers, and Laila Lalami. The book also seeks to resituate southern studies by drawing on theories of “scale” that originated in human geography. In this way, Bone also offers a new paradigm in which the U.S. South is thoroughly engaged with a range of other scales from the local to the global, making both literature about the region and southern studies itself truly transnational in scope.

The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey

Author : Denmark Vesey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey written by Denmark Vesey and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eating the Black Body

Author : Carlyle Van Thompson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820479316
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Eating the Black Body written by Carlyle Van Thompson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook

Louise Thompson Patterson

Author : Keith Gilyard
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372312
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Louise Thompson Patterson written by Keith Gilyard and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the first biography of Patterson, Keith Gilyard tells her compelling story, from her childhood on the West Coast, where she suffered isolation and persecution, to her participation in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. In the 1930s and 1940s she became central, along with Paul Robeson, to the labor movement, and later, in the 1950s, she steered proto-black-feminist activities. Patterson was also crucial to the efforts in the 1970s to free political prisoners, most notably Angela Davis. In the 1980s and 1990s she continued to work as a progressive activist and public intellectual. To read her story is to witness the courage, sacrifice, vision, and discipline of someone who spent decades working to achieve justice and liberation for all.

The Bushtrackers

Author : Meja Mwangi
Publisher : Drumbeat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Bushtrackers written by Meja Mwangi and published by Drumbeat. This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trinity of Passion

Author : Alan M. Wald
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882364
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Trinity of Passion written by Alan M. Wald and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era when the International Brigades fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the United States battled in World War II (1941-45). Probing in rich and haunting detail the controversial impact of the Popular Front on literary culture, he explores the ethical and aesthetic challenges that pro-Communist writers faced. Wald presents a cross section of literary talent, from the famous to the forgotten, the major to the minor. The writers examined include Len Zinberg (a.k.a. Ed Lacy), John Oliver Killens, Irwin Shaw, Albert Maltz, Ann Petry, Chester Himes, Henry Roth, Lauren Gilfillan, Ruth McKenney, Morris U. Schappes, and Jo Sinclair. He also uncovers dramatic new information about Arthur Miller's complex commitment to the Left. Confronting heartfelt questions about Jewish masculinity, racism at the core of liberal democracy, the corrosion of utopian dreams, and the thorny interaction between antifascism and Communism, Wald re-creates the intellectual and cultural landscape of a remarkable era.