{"product_id":"eric-walrond-9780231157858","title":"Eric Walrond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA great read, even for readers who do not know about the Harlem Renaissance and Eric Walrond. The book tells a fascinating and moving story of a literary talent's demise, or what it takes to nurture and support the literary talents of minority and impoverished writers struggling with their issues of self-esteem and self-confidence while living in straitened circumstances. -- Michelle Ann Stephens, Rutgers University–New Brunswick\u003cbr\u003eEric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance. His collection, \u003ci\u003eTropic Death\u003c\/i\u003e, was an astonishing \u003ci\u003esucces d'estime\u003c\/i\u003e. A Guggenheim Fellowship certified the promise of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Ditch\u003c\/i\u003e, Walrond's bildungsroman of capitalism, underdevelopment, and race. In one of the more mysterious losses in American letters, the book never appeared and its author disappeared. James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced \u003ci\u003eEric Walrond\u003c\/i\u003e is a major biography of a fascinating figure, a triumph of archival sleuthing that reintroduces readers to almost everybody known to his peripatetic protagonist. -- David Levering Lewis, New York University\u003cbr\u003eDavis has given us a rich portrait of the writer who may be the greatest conundrum of the Harlem Renaissance: Eric Walrond. He not only situates the 'sepulchral' brilliance of Walrond's best-known book, \u003ci\u003eTropic Death\u003c\/i\u003e, but also recovers a much larger corpus of fugitive articles and stories. As peripatetic (with stops in Barbados, Panama, the United States, Haiti, France, and England) as it was ultimately tragic, Walrond's life may be the single most resonant record of the transnational contours of black culture in the period. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Practice of Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn eloquent biography. . . . Davis's careful and meticulous research re-establishes Walrond as one of the first black writers to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction, putting him alongside his peers in the Harlem Renaissance. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e[A] wonderful biography. -- Darryl Pinckney * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e[Davis's] biography provides deft readings of the Harlem Renaissance and the transatlantic Caribbean, while bringing Walrond out of the shadows. -- Douglas Field * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eWell-researched and highly readable. * Caribbean Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eSkillfully researched and engagingly composed, the books stands as a discerning recuperation of a paradigmatic but neglected figure. * Small Axe Salon *\u003cbr\u003e[An] excellent new biography of Walrond. -- James Smethurst * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully readable book in eleven chapters -- Carole Boyce Davies * Carribbean Studies Association Newsletter *\u003cbr\u003e[A] highly readable narrative... excellent, painstakingly researched. * New West Indian Guide *\u003cbr\u003eJames Davis’s reconstruction of the life of Eric Walrond, and Christian Høgsbjerg’s measured account of the first phase of C L R James’s life in England, are both magnificent contributions to our understanding of the twentieth-century Caribbean. -- Bill Schwartz * Wasafiri *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Harlem Story, a Diaspora Story\u003cbr\u003e1. Guyana and Barbados (1898–1911)\u003cbr\u003e2. Panama (1911–1918)\u003cbr\u003e3. New York (1918–1923)\u003cbr\u003e4. The New Negro (1923–1926)\u003cbr\u003e5. \u003ci\u003eTropic Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e6. A Person of Distinction (1926–1929)\u003cbr\u003e7. The Caribbean and France (1928–1931)\u003cbr\u003e8. London I (1931–1939)\u003cbr\u003e9. Bradford-on-Avon (1939–1952)\u003cbr\u003e10. Roundway Hospital and \u003ci\u003eThe Second Battle\u003c\/i\u003e (1952–1957)\u003cbr\u003e11. London II (1957–1966)\u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400260723031,"sku":"9780231157858","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231157858.jpg?v=1730470211","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eric-walrond-9780231157858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}