Title: Trumpeting a fiery sound
Subtitle: history and folklore in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
First published: 1998
Description: Jubilee is unique for being one of the first novels to present African-American history from both a black and female perspective. It is a historical and fictional account of Walker's great-grandmother's life, from slavery through Reconstruction, as told to Walker by her maternal grandmother.

In Trumpeting a Fiery Sound, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael examines the novel's genesis and composition, the process of revision and publication, the work's structure and narrative strategies, its use of history and folklore, and its critical reception in the three decades since its first publication.
Subjects: History, African Americans in literature, Literature and history, History and criticism, African American women in literature, American Historical fiction, Literature and folklore, Folklore, African Americans
Places: United States
People: Margaret Walker (1915-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3545.A517 J834 1998