How I Wrote Jubilee: And Other Essays on Life and Literature

By Margaret Walker

Book Overview

In this first comprehensive collection of autobiographical and literary essays, Margaret Walker--described by Booklist as "one of the intellectual beacons of her generation"--recounts the search for family and social history from which she wrote her carefully researched novel of the Civil War. The autobiographical essays reflect on her work and her life as an artist, an African American, and a woman, while the literary essays examine the writings of such giants as Richard Wright, W. E. B. DuBois, Phillis Wheatley, and others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558610049
• ISBN13: 9781558610040
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

This book is a great book for Black Literature.

This book focuses on a young girl name Vyry who has to face many choices in life. First the death of her mother. Then this mean old 18th century devil Selina. She experiences many people like her first love Randall Ware, and Innis Brown. She has to make a choice between these men.