Dorothy West, The Wedding

A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Ed. by A Yemisi Jimoh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1995

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Dorothy West's second and last novel, The Wedding (1995), was published forty-seven years after her debut novel, The Living Is Easy. In The Wedding, West returns readers to the still important issues of class and color-consciousness that she previously had explored in the exclusive circles of east-coast African Americans. After West's first novel was published, she received a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehard Foundation to support her second book. This novel, The Wedding, also includes sections from another unfinished manuscript titled “Where the Wild Grape Grows,” an apparent allusion to the, perhaps unacknowledged, rule-breaking spirit that West will locate among staunch Oak Bluffs …

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Citation: Jimoh, A Yemisi. "The Wedding". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 January 2001 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8119, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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