HEARTS OF GOLD
West Virginia University Press
West Virginia University Press
Regenerations
9781935978015
$21.99
Digital (delivered electronically)
2011-03-01
J. McHenry Jones’s Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post-Civil War battles against racism and systemic injustice. Originally published in 1896, this novel reveals an African American community of individuals dedicated to education, journalism, fraternal organizations, and tireless work serving the needs of those abandoned by the political process of the white world. Jones challenges conventional wisdom by addressing a range of subjects—from interracial relationships to forced labor in coal mines—that virtually no other novelist of the time was willing to approach. With the addition of an introduction and appendix, this new edition reveals the difficult foundations upon which African Americans built a platform to address injustice; generate opportunities; and play a prominent role in American social, economic, and political life.
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“…the first of a projected series of out-of-print West Virginia literary works by African American writers. An extensive introduction and six appendices provide fascinating context for a love story set among convict coal miners in West Virginia.”
Appalachian Heritage
“…[a] groundbreaking novel.”
Phyllis Wilson Moore, Journal of Appalachian Studies
“[This] series will expand the scholarly discussion about the ways in which such texts help us to rethink the field and insure that the books will be taught in the classroom and thereby be sustained for the next generation. . . .Professors Ernest and Moody have the expertise to insure the highest quality for these aspects of publication.”
Sharon Harris, Director, Humanities Institute and Professor of English, University of Connecticut
“As the editor of African American Review, Joycelyn K. Moody has had her finger on the pulse of new scholarship…..[while] John Ernest [is] a scholarly editor whose work is careful, insightful, and accessible….”
Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Emory University
“This [series] recognizes the enhanced role of the archive in literary research–research libraries and historical societies that have preserved the letters and papers of non-canonical writers. Such authors, whose work has been neglected are now being presented in the scholarship of literary critics as they expand the definition of the canon and revise its interpretation. . . .”
Caroline F. Sloat, Director of Book Publication, American Antiquarian Society
“[Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture] has the potential to be a vital, exciting series that will make available neglected texts that can help us to rethink African American literary and cultural traditions.”
Robert S. Levine, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland
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