George Horton (Bücher)

George Horton Bücher

George Horton diente als amerikanischer Diplomat und bekleidete Konsularposten in Griechenland und im Osmanischen Reich. Seine umfangreiche Erfahrung in Smyrna, insbesondere während Perioden intensiver Konflikte und Umwälzungen, verschaffte ihm eine einzigartige Perspektive. In seinem wegweisenden Werk "The Blight of Asia" bietet Horton einen eindringlichen, persönlichen Bericht über die systematische ethnische Säuberung und Verwüstung, die dem Großen Brand von Smyrna vorausgingen und ihn begleiteten. Sein Schreiben ist geprägt von persönlichen Memoiren und Augenzeugenaussagen, obwohl es wegen seiner wahrgenommenen anti-türkischen Haltung kritisch betrachtet wurde.

Minor Notes, Volume 1

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The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith A Penguin Classic Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Minor Notes clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps best understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous. The poets featured in Volume 1 are George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Anne Spencer, and Angelina Weld Grimké.