New Orleans griot: the Tom Dent reader
A mid-twentieth century African American writer and cultural activist, Tom Dent worked tirelessly to help cultivate the Black Arts Movement, mentoring numerous other artists and writers. Taken from his papers held at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, this collection brings together Dent's fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and drama, including many previously unpublished works.
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- Full title :New Orleans griot : the Tom Dent reader / by Tom Dent ; edited by Kalamu ya Salaam ; afterword by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Summary
A mid-twentieth century African American writer and cultural activist, Tom Dent worked tirelessly to help cultivate the Black Arts Movement, mentoring numerous other artists and writers. Taken from his papers held at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, this collection brings together Dent's fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and drama, including many previously unpublished works.
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- Publication Date:2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of New Orleans Press
- Place of Publication:New Orleans, Louisiana
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
The Physical Object
- Description:524 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781608011490, 1608011496
- oclc:on1089537189
- LC Classification:PS3554.E585
- Dewey Decimal:814/.54
Table of Contents
New york years/umbra days -- free southern theater/ BLKARTSOUTH -- new orleans -- griot work -- interviews.
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