{"product_id":"trumpeting-a-fiery-sound-history-and-folklore-in-margaret-walkers-jubilee-paperback","title":"Trumpeting a Fiery Sound: History and Folklore in Margaret Walker's Jubilee - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Miller Carmichael\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Walker's first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eFor My People\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Yale Poets Award in 1942, she was just beginning her long and distinguished career as a poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher. When her novel \u003ci\u003eJubilee\u003c\/i\u003e was published to great acclaim in 1966, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e said, \" It] chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondages.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJubilee\u003c\/i\u003e is noteworthy for being one of the first novels to present African American history from both a black and female perspective. It is a historical and fictional account of Walker's great-grandmother's life, from slavery through Reconstruction, as told to Walker by her maternal grandmother. In \u003ci\u003eTrumpeting a Fiery Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael examines the novel's genesis and composition, the process of revision and publication, the work's structure and narrative strategies, its use of history and folklore, and its critical reception in the three decades since its first publication.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJACQUELINE MILLER CARMICHAEL, who formerly taught English at Georgia State University, lives in Atlanta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782301188384,"sku":"9780820325750","price":43.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/364548160a3c877bf08b58c36476c8ab.webp?v=1780567512","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/trumpeting-a-fiery-sound-history-and-folklore-in-margaret-walkers-jubilee-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}