{"product_id":"visible-man-jeffrey-b-leak-9780820351469","title":"Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were windows into the human condition. While he certainly should be understood in the context of the cultural and political movements of the 1960s--Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights--his writing, and ultimately his life, were filled with ambiguities and contradictions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDumas was shot and killed in 1968 in Harlem months before his thirty-fourth birthday by a white transit policeman under circumstances never fully explained. After his death he became a kind of literary legend, but one whose full story was unknown. A devoted cadre of friends and later admirers from the 1970s to the present pushed for the publication of his work. Toni Morrison championed him as \"an absolute genius.\" Amiri Baraka, a writer not quick to praise others, claimed that Dumas produced \"actual art, real, man, and stunning.\" Eugene Redmond and Quincy Troupe heralded Dumas's poetry, short stories, and work as an editor of \"little\" magazines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eVisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeffrey B. Leak offers a full examination of both Dumas's life and his creative development. Given unprecedented access to the Dumas archival materials and numerous interviews with family, friends, and writers who knew him in various contexts, Leak opens the door to Dumas's rich and at times frustrating life, giving us a layered portrait of an African American writer and his coming of age during one of the most volatile and transformative decades in American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey B. Leak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820351466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820351469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Jeffrey B. Leak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926516924671,"sku":"9780820351469","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c9a6224b-0d0d-471f-8154-3302a536242b.jpg?v=1681083499","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/visible-man-jeffrey-b-leak-9780820351469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}