Echo tree: the collected short fiction of henry dumas - henry dumas

African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction--Dumass stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America.

Henry Dumass fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, the present and the ancestral.

From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on real, magical, and mythic quests.

Humming with life, Dumass stories create a collage of mid-twentieth-century Black experiences, interweaving religious metaphor, African cosmologies, diasporic folklore, and Americas history of slavery and systemic racism.