A collection of fiction and journalism by Caribbean and African-American Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond, including selections from his 1926 story collection "Tropic Death" and a biographical and critical introduction

"Eric Walrond (1898-1966), author of Tropic Death (1926), remains a seminal but elusive figure in Harlem Renaissance and Caribbean diasporic literature. Although this collection remains his only major text, Walrond was in fact quite prolific, penning several more fictions and journalistic writings. Born in British Guiana (Guyana), he endured a peripatetic existence, beleaguered at every turn by those colonial crises and conflicts that constitute the...