· Jeffery Renard Allen's "Song of the Shank" is a fictionalized account of the life of prodigious child musician "Blind Tom" www.doorway.ru: Sam Worley. · Allen has said he began Song of the Shank as a fictionalized biography of Wiggins but changed the novel's form and focus after reading about the Draft Riots. I understand his interest in those events and see the parallel between the continued mistreatment of the emancipated Tom and free blacks in the North, but why Allen altered numerous and essential facts of his protagonist's life is www.doorway.ru: Graywolf Press. Song of the Shank is a novel loosely based on the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a 19th-century African American piano virtuoso and composer who performed under the stage name Blind Tom. Told through the eyes and minds of people who try to manipulate or use Tom for one reason or another, the novel is an imaginative meditation on issues of blindness, race, and the role and importance of art and critical /5(33).
Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen Overview - A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era. Jeffery Renard Allen. Publisher. Graywolf Press. Release. 17 June Share. Subjects Song of the Shank opens in as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious. Song of the Shank is a novel loosely based on the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a 19th-century African American piano virtuoso and composer who performed under the stage name Blind Tom. Told through the eyes and minds of people who try to manipulate or use Tom for one reason or another, the novel is an imaginative meditation on issues of blindness, race, and the role and importance of art and.
Song of the Shank is a novel by Jeffery Renard Allen, published by Graywolf Press in It is the author's second novel. His first novel, Rails Under My Back, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux fourteen years earlier in The publisher described the novel as following: At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. In , Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggl. By Jeffery Renard Allen Song Of The Shank A Novel "Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." —The Philadelphia Inquirer When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its author comparisons to some of the giants of twentieth. Song of the Shank is a novel loosely based on the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a 19th-century African American piano virtuoso and composer who performed under the stage name Blind Tom. Told through the eyes and minds of people who try to manipulate or use Tom for one reason or another, the novel is an imaginative meditation on issues of blindness, race, and the role and importance of art and critical thinking in our world today.
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