{"product_id":"in-search-of-asylum-eric-walrond-9780813054919","title":"In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond","description":"\"Set in the Caribbean, Panama, the U.S., and England, [Walrond's] fiction captures the experiences of working-class peoples, often migrants, as they confront the depredations of colonialism, racial prejudice, and economic exploitation. . . . A significant and fascinating collection.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfrican American Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"Brings together a number of interesting pieces of fiction and non-fiction by this Guyana-born, Barbados- and Panama-bred author.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew West Indian Guide\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"Forms part of a gradual rehabilitation of Walrond's work that has been taking place in recent years.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaribbean Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"Place[s] Walrond squarely on the map. . . . \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e could not have arrived at a more propitious time.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003esx salon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"A substantial step forward for black diaspora and black transnational literary studies.\"--Gary Edward Holcomb, author of \u003ci\u003eClaude McKay, Code Name Sasha\u003c\/i\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Waves\u003c\/i\u003e 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?g? 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, \u003ci\u003eTropic Death\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e compiles Walrond'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'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Walrond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813054915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813054919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Eric Walrond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094101053695,"sku":"9780813054919","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9ca81fc-7d6a-485b-b7e7-f6c4c93b1ebe.jpg?v=1724843688","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-search-of-asylum-eric-walrond-9780813054919","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}