| Description |
xxii, 317 pages ; 22 cm |
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1. The seer and the seen: The same pain, the same pleasure: an interview -- Twentieth-century fiction and the black mask of humanity -- Change the joke and slip the yoke -- Stephen Crane and the mainstream of American fiction -- Richard Wright's blues -- Beating that boy -- Brave words for a startling occasion -- The world and the jug -- Hidden name and complex fate -- The art of fiction: an interview -- 2. Sound and the mainstream: Living with music -- The golden age, time past -- As the spirit moves Mahalia -- On bird, bird-watching, and jazz -- The Charlie Christian story -- Remembering Jimmy -- Blues people -- 3. The shadow and the act: Some questions and some answers -- The shadow and the act -- The way it is -- Harlem is nowhere -- An American dilemma: a review. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African influences.
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African Americans in literature.
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