John Edgar Tidwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Edgar Tidwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Edgar |
| FAMILY NAME | Tidwell |
| SIGNATURE | TIDWELL J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Letters from Langston
The coeditors of Letters from Langston have created an homage to a more than forty-year friendship between their parents and the renowned, prolific writer Langston Hughes. A research venture into Hughes's papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library became for Evelyn Louise (“Nebby Lou”) Crawford, daughter of Matt Crawford and Evelyn (“Nebby”) Crawford, and MaryLouise (“Mary Lou”) Patterson, daughter of Louise (Thompson) and William L. Patterson,…
Frank Marshall Davis
Reviewed by: Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix, A Critical Biography by Kathryn Waddell Takara, and; The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor by Paul Kengor John Edgar Tidwell Kathryn Waddell Takara. Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix, A Critical Biography. Ka`a`awa: Pacific Raven, 2012. 216 pp. $19.95. Paul Kengor. The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama…
Street Fam (review)
Reviewed by: Street Fam John Edgar Tidwell Jason J. Williams. Street Fam. Grandview, MO: Real Grit, 2009. 192 pp. $14.95. The controversial genre of urban literature has recently welcomed another interesting contribution: Street Fam, written by first-time novelist Jason J. Williams. [End Page 306] In part, the provocative nature of this literary kind owes to the absence of an agreed-to sense of art or aesthetics, thus making description, interpre…
After Winter
John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, After Winter is structured around the following three features: (1) new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approach…
After winter
Sterling A. Brown’s, A Negro Looks At The South
Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in extended, non-fiction essays of many different types, illustrate the diversity of opinions in the Black South about the war and the war period in America. For nearly sixteen years…
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
Two Lost Sonnets by Sterling A. Brown
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v021/21.4tidwell01.html
Steady and Unaccusing
“Steady and Unaccusing”: An Interview with Sterling A. Brown John Edgar Tidwell (bio) and John S. Wright (bio) Since the early 1980s a series of symposia, public and academic awards, and other recognitions have testified to continuing popular and scholarly interest in Sterling A. Brown, poet, literary critic, teacher, anthologist, and raconteur. The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown (Harper & Row), for example, received the Lenore Marshall Poe…
Double Conscious Brother in the Veil
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v021/21.4tidwell03.html
Two Writers Sharing
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3042564?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The Florida Negro
Journal Article The Florida Negro: A Federal Writers' Project Legacy. Ed. by Gary W. McDonogh. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. xxxvi, 177 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87805-588-6.) Get access John Edgar Tidwell John Edgar Tidwell Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 780–781, https://doi.org/10.2307/20813…
Livin' the Blues
Journal Article Livin ' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet. By Frank Marshall Davis. Ed. by John Edgar Tidwell. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xxxii, 373 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-299-13500-4.) Get access Keith E. Byerman Keith E. Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages …
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
Progenitors and Progeny of a Seminal Movement
Two Writers Sharing
Afro-American Literature Reinterpreted
A Long and Illustrious Career
The Birth of a Black New Criticism
Letters from Langston
The coeditors of Letters from Langston have created an homage to a more than forty-year friendship between their parents and the renowned, prolific writer Langston Hughes. A research venture into Hughes's papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library became for Evelyn Louise (“Nebby Lou”) Crawford, daughter of Matt Crawford and Evelyn (“Nebby”) Crawford, and MaryLouise (“Mary Lou”) Patterson, daughter of Louise (Thompson) and William L. Patterson,…
The Birth of a Black New Criticism
Afro-American Literature Reinterpreted
A Long and Illustrious Career
Two Writers Sharing
Progenitors and Progeny of a Seminal Movement
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
The Florida Negro
Journal Article The Florida Negro: A Federal Writers' Project Legacy. Ed. by Gary W. McDonogh. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. xxxvi, 177 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87805-588-6.) Get access John Edgar Tidwell John Edgar Tidwell Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 780–781, https://doi.org/10.2307/20813…
Livin' the Blues
Journal Article Livin ' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet. By Frank Marshall Davis. Ed. by John Edgar Tidwell. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xxxii, 373 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-299-13500-4.) Get access Keith E. Byerman Keith E. Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages …
Two Writers Sharing
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3042564?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Two Lost Sonnets by Sterling A. Brown
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v021/21.4tidwell01.html
Steady and Unaccusing
“Steady and Unaccusing”: An Interview with Sterling A. Brown John Edgar Tidwell (bio) and John S. Wright (bio) Since the early 1980s a series of symposia, public and academic awards, and other recognitions have testified to continuing popular and scholarly interest in Sterling A. Brown, poet, literary critic, teacher, anthologist, and raconteur. The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown (Harper & Row), for example, received the Lenore Marshall Poe…
Double Conscious Brother in the Veil
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v021/21.4tidwell03.html
Sterling A. Brown’s, A Negro Looks At The South
Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in extended, non-fiction essays of many different types, illustrate the diversity of opinions in the Black South about the war and the war period in America. For nearly sixteen years…
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
After winter
After Winter
John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, After Winter is structured around the following three features: (1) new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approach…
Street Fam (review)
Reviewed by: Street Fam John Edgar Tidwell Jason J. Williams. Street Fam. Grandview, MO: Real Grit, 2009. 192 pp. $14.95. The controversial genre of urban literature has recently welcomed another interesting contribution: Street Fam, written by first-time novelist Jason J. Williams. [End Page 306] In part, the provocative nature of this literary kind owes to the absence of an agreed-to sense of art or aesthetics, thus making description, interpre…
Frank Marshall Davis
Reviewed by: Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix, A Critical Biography by Kathryn Waddell Takara, and; The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor by Paul Kengor John Edgar Tidwell Kathryn Waddell Takara. Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix, A Critical Biography. Ka`a`awa: Pacific Raven, 2012. 216 pp. $19.95. Paul Kengor. The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama…
Letters from Langston
The coeditors of Letters from Langston have created an homage to a more than forty-year friendship between their parents and the renowned, prolific writer Langston Hughes. A research venture into Hughes's papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library became for Evelyn Louise (“Nebby Lou”) Crawford, daughter of Matt Crawford and Evelyn (“Nebby”) Crawford, and MaryLouise (“Mary Lou”) Patterson, daughter of Louise (Thompson) and William L. Patterson,…
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