In Search of Asylum

by Walrond, Eric; Parascandola, Louis J.; Wade, Carl A.; Stewart, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780813035604
• ISBN10: 0813035600
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-06
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

"A substantial step forward for black diaspora and black transnational literary studies."--Gary Edward Holcomb, author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha "Fills a significant void in our understanding of the life and literary career of Eric Walrond. By collecting, for the first time, the writings Walrond produced following his departure from the U.S. in 1928, Parascandola and Wade have done scholars a rich service."--Heather Hathaway, author of Caribbean Waves Eric Walrond is one of the great underexamined figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the Caribbean diaspora. Very little of his later work has been subsequently published or made readily available to American scholars. His writings, set in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe, discuss imperialism, racism, the role of the black writer, black identity, and immigration--all topics of vital concern today. Born in British Guiana (now Guyana), Walrond moved to New York City in 1918 where he worked briefly for Marcus Garvey and became a prot#xE9;g#xE9; of Charles S. Johnson. During that time, he wrote short fiction as well as nonfiction and gained a measure of fame for his 1926 collection, Tropic Death. In Search of Asylum compiles Walrond#x19;s European journalism and later fiction, as well as the pieces he wrote during the 1950s at Roundway Hospital in Wiltshire, England, where he was a voluntary patient. Louis Parascandola and Carl Wade have assembled a collection that at last fills in the biographical gaps in Walrond#x19;s life, providing insights into the contours of his later work and the cultural climates in which he functioned between 1928 and his death in 1966.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
A Note on the Text	p. xv
Selective Chronology	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xxi
Notes to the Introduction	p. li
Works Cited	p. lx
The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
Harlem on my Mind
ôThe Negro Renaissanceö (July 1929)	p. 9
ôRecent Negro Literatureö (January 1930)	p. 12
ôHarlemö (February 4, 1933)	p. 13
ôThe Negro, Sent from the Cabaret, Returns to Labor in the Fieldsö [ôEl Negro, Expulsado del Cabaret, Vuelve a Labrar la Tierraö] (June 21, 1934)	p. 19
ôHarlem Nightsö (September 26, 1935)	p. 21
Fugitive Stories/Sketches
ôTai Singö (April 20, 1934)	p. 25
ôInciting to Riotö (July 26, 1934)	p. 29
ôA Fugitive from Dixieö (May/June 1936)	p. 36
ôMorning in Colonö (August 1940)	p. 39
Fugitive Journalism
ôWhite Man, What Now?ö (April 5, 1935)	p. 45
ôOn Englandö (July 1938)	p. 47
ôThe Men of the Cibaoö (December 29, 1945, and January 5, 1946)	p. 49
Roundway Review (Fiction, Caribbean)
ôThe Servant Girlö (January 1953)	p. 55
ôThe Coolie's Weddingö (February 1953)	p. 61
ôTwo Sistersö (March-May 1953)	p. 66
ôBlissö (July 1953)	p. 80
ôThe Icemanö (August 1953)	p. 85
ôThe Loanö (November 1953)	p. 90
ôA Piece of Hard Tackö (October 1953)	p. 94
ôWind in the Palmsö (September 1954)	p. 98
Roundway Review (Fiction, United States)
ôSuccess Storyö (6 parts); (February-July 1954)	p. 105
Roundway Review (Fiction, Britain)
ôThe Lieutenant's Dilemmaö (May 1955)	p. 141
ôStrange Incidentö (January 1956)	p. 145
Roundway Review (Nonfiction)
ôFrom British Guiana to Roundwayö (December 1952)	p. 149
ôThe Second Battleö (April 1956 to July 1957)	p. 153
Unpublished Writings
ôShadow in the Sunö	p. 161
ôBrineö	p. 178
ôThe Panama Scandalö	p. 188
Notes to the Text	p. 199
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