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The first book-length study of Dorothy West, now with new writings and insights
Originally published in 2005, Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950 was the first book-length study of Dorothy West's work, providing a rich and insightful profile of one of the last surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance.
Although West (1907-1998) is often remembered for her novels of Boston's African American community and her lifelong ties to Martha's Vineyard, her career was also shaped by her formative years in New York, where she moved among the era's most influential writers, artists, and political figures, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and many others. Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell document these early decades with care, recovering out-of-print, little-known, and unpublished works, alongside evocative family photographs, to illuminate West's distinctive voice and vision.
This expanded second edition includes three important pieces not featured in the first edition: West's story "Cook," which foreshadows tropes of racial and gendered double consciousness and geographic mobility later developed in her novels; and her two Russian texts, "Room in Red Square" and "Russian Correspondence." This new edition situates West's writings within the larger history of African American artists' fascination with and ambivalence toward the U.S.S.R. The editors also extend their analysis beyond West's early life to consider her final three decades, a period of renewed creativity and recognition.
With a revised, enhanced introduction and a richer selection of West's writings, this updated second edition is an indispensable resource for understanding the full scope of Dorothy West's life, art, and enduring legacy.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface. Toward a Reappraisal of Dorothy West's Work
Introduction to Where the Wild Grape Grows: Second Edition
Introduction. Dorothy West and Her Circle
Carolina
At the Swan Boats
Blackberrying
Quilting
Prologue to a Life
Hannah Byde
The Black Dress
My Baby
Mammy
Pluto
The House Across the Way
Mrs. Marlowe
The Stairs
Where the Wild Grape Grows
Winter on Martha's Vineyard
Elephant's Dance: A Memoir of Wallace Thurman
The Inroads of Time
Selected Letters
Cooks
Room in Red Square
Russian Correspondence: A Fragment
Appendix I. New York Daily News Stories
Appendix II. Family Trees
