· In A Visitation of Spirits, the older characters such as Ezekiel Cross serve as a sort of Greek chorus commenting on the real action of the story, which inevitably involves the . Reality and memory coalesce in a nightmarish, drug-induced psychosis. "A Visitation of Spirits" is a haunting novel of a young gay man wrestling with his demons. His struggles are universal; his solution is, unfortunately, both tragic and final. This is a work of incredible depth,passion and understanding/5(51). · Kenan’s first novel was considered groundbreaking at the time of its publication in On a personal level, it was also groundbreaking for Johnson: “I first read ‘A Visitation of Spirits.
When A Visitation of Spirits was published, Randall Kenan () was instantly recognized as a writer of significance, and one who brought into literary fiction the southern Black, gay experience, one of the few writers to do so. His work has won the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize, and he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and the. A VISITATION OF SPIRITS. First-novelist Kenan conjures up a modern book of revelations, full of spirits seen and unseen, past and present, who haunt a few young inhabitants of Tims Creek, a black community built among the pine trees and tobacco fields of backwoods North Carolina. Sixteen-year-old Horace Cross and his cousin, James Malachai. Randall Kenan: A Visitation of Spirits | A Celebration Thursday, Ma - pm to pm Please join the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) in celebrating the life and works of our beloved friend Randall Kenan (March August ) during his birthday month.
Randall Kenan's first novel, A Visitation of Spirits was published by Grove Press in ; and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, was published in by Harcourt, Brace. That collection was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was among The New York Times Notable Books of When A Visitation of Spirits was published, Randall Kenan () was instantly recognized as a writer of significance, and one who brought into literary fiction the southern Black, gay experience, one of the few writers to do so. His work has won the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize, and he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and the Prix de Rome. A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan "With A Visitation of Spirits, Randall Kenan continues James Baldwin's legendary tradition of 'telling it on the mountain.'"--San Francisco Chronicle When A Visitation of Spirits was published, Randall Kenan () was instantly recognized as a writer of significance, and one who brought into.
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