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Popo and Fifina

Popo and Fifina( )
Author: Bontemps, Arna
Hughes, Langston
Illustrator: Campbell, E. Simms
Introduction by: Rampersad, Arnold
Series title:The ^AIona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-513939-6
Publication Date:Dec 2000
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $8.95
Book Description:

This collaboration between Harlem Renaissance writers Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes is an early African-Aamerican classic and a milestone in the history of literature for children. In this novel for young people, Popo and Fifina leave their home in the hills of Haiti to move with their parents to a town by the sea. The next few months are full of adventures--adjusting to a new home, a trip back to the hills for a visit, Popo's work as a carpenter's apprentice, the children's fun...
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Book Details
Pages:128
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Places / Caribbean & Latin America
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.4 x 7.9 x 0.4 Inches
Book Weight:0.35 Pounds
Author Biography
Bontemps, Arna (Author)
Arna Bontemps was one of many African American writers associated with Fisk University, where he taught for 20 years. He became a visiting professorship at Yale University and returned to Fisk to spend the last years of his life there. Bontemps grew up in the South and wrote of the condition and spirit of the southern black in memoirs and in fiction.

His historical and topical novel Black Thunder (1936) is perhaps his best known, along with Drums at Dusk (1935). As an active leader in the Harlem Renaissance, however, Bontemps wrote prolifically in all genres and for children as well as adults. He produced several important collections of narratives about enslaved people and African American folk tales. Bontemps was a major anthologizer of Harlem Renaissance work and helped shape the new black writing as theoretician and critic.

Bontemps died in 1973.

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