Understanding Randall Kenan

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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Author: James A. Crank, Linda Wagner-Martin ISBN: 9781611179590
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Publication: March 28, 2019
Imprint: University of South Carolina Press Language: English
Author: James A. Crank, Linda Wagner-Martin
ISBN: 9781611179590
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication: March 28, 2019
Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
Language: English

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a nominee for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and named a New York Times Notable Book. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, asa well as the Whiting Writers Award, Sherwood Anderson Award, John Dos Passos Award, Rome Prize, and North Carolina Award for Literature. Understanding Randall Kenan is the first book-length critical study of Kenan, offering a brief biography and an exploration of his considerable oeuvre—memoir, short stories, novels, journalism, folklore, and essays. Kenan’s writing can be complex and sometimes highly stylized while covering a broad range of topics, though he often explores African Americans’ complicated relationships, specifically as they struggle to make connections along other axes of class, gender, and sexual identity. Crank explores these themes and how they influence Kenan’s work through a personal interview with the author.

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Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a nominee for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and named a New York Times Notable Book. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, asa well as the Whiting Writers Award, Sherwood Anderson Award, John Dos Passos Award, Rome Prize, and North Carolina Award for Literature. Understanding Randall Kenan is the first book-length critical study of Kenan, offering a brief biography and an exploration of his considerable oeuvre—memoir, short stories, novels, journalism, folklore, and essays. Kenan’s writing can be complex and sometimes highly stylized while covering a broad range of topics, though he often explores African Americans’ complicated relationships, specifically as they struggle to make connections along other axes of class, gender, and sexual identity. Crank explores these themes and how they influence Kenan’s work through a personal interview with the author.

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