| Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Walker, Margaret (Author), Giovanni, Nikki (Foreword by), Miles, Robin (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1504703987 ISBN-13: 9781504703987 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 6.7" (0.20 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's bestselling classic with a foreword by Nikki GiovanniJubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.Weaving her own family's oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Margaret: - Margaret Walker (1915-1998) was one of America's most popular and respected African American writers and scholars. Among the most formidable literary voices to emerge in the twentieth century, she will be remembered as one of the foremost transcribers of African American heritage. Giovanni, Nikki: -Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America's most widely read poets. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of Oprah's twenty-five "Living Legends." Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. Nikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Miles, Robin: -Robin Miles, also known as Violet Grey, is an accent specialist and award-winning narrator of over two hundred audiobooks. She was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics for The Pirate's Daughter and 2008 Best Voice in Biography & History for Brother, I'm Dying. |