Surfaces and Masks - Softcover

Major, Clarence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0918273439 ISBN 13: 9780918273437

Verlag: Coffee House Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

A book-length poem by an African-American author that uses the city of Venice as its backdrop, considering issues of racial and national identity. By the author of My Amputations.

In Surfaces and Masks, Clarence Major becomes heir to the great tradition of the “American-goes-to-Europe” novels of James and Twain. Major is a pointillist, impressionist, and breakneck historian, creating a tapestry that utilizes and satirizes his chosen subject, Venice. With the same unstoppable intelligence that inspired his award-winning novel, My Amputations, he creates a thoroughly modern picture of this glittering, grandiose swamp. A multifaceted portrait in a funhouse mirror, Surfaces and Masks becomes a reevaluation of what it means to be an American and a Black writer in this century, while surrounded by the decay of the past.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0918273439
• ISBN 13: 9780918273437
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar