Synopsis
Eric Walrond was a singular voice of the Harlem Renaissance, and Tropic Death is his most famous work―a collection that highlights his particular strength as a writer of short fiction. Over the course of these ten stories, Walrond vividly details the punishing realities of life and labor across the Caribbean, and yet the overall effect is far from grim. These are unsentimental yet startlingly beautiful portraits of the migrant experience, full of distinctive voices striving for an audience in a seemingly implacable world. Although Walrond’s writings were unaccountably neglected in recent decades, Tropic Death’s re-emergence as a classic of modern literature has brought an important author back into the light.
Revised edition: Previously published as Tropic Death, this edition of Tropic Death (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
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À propos de l?auteur
Eric Walrond (1898–1966) was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, and grew up in Panama. In 1918 he moved to New York, where he attended City College of New York and Columbia University. Settling in Harlem, he embarked on a career as an essayist, reporter, and short story writer with a primary focus on Caribbean-born immigrants in America. Walrond was editor and co-owner of the African American weekly Brooklyn and Long Island Informer and a contributor to the National Urban League’s Opportunity magazine as well as to the New Republic, Vanity Fair, the Smart Set, and Negro World. In 1926, Walrond published Tropic Death, a collection of stories depicting Caribbean lives and voices, which established him as a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance.
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