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Author Major, Clarence.

Title Necessary distance : essays and criticism / Clarence Major.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; [2001]
Saint Paul, MN : Available to the trade through Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  809 MAJOR    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 239 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239).
Contents Necessary distance: afterthoughts on becoming a writer -- Discovering Walt Whitman -- A Paris fantasy transformed -- Struga '75 -- I am reading my poems -- Tightrope walking: a hundred years of African American short stories -- Rhythm: a hundred years of African American poetry -- Rhythm: talking that talk -- Claude McKay: my 1975 adventure -- White characters -- Don, here is my peppermint striped shirt -- In search of Rebecca -- An appointment with John O'Hara -- Wallace Thurman and the Niggeratti manor -- Looking at the Dial -- Considering the Yale Review -- The Little review in focus -- Reading William Faulkner's Light in August -- Black and white in color -- A novel of consequence -- New world scheherazade -- Magical mystery tour -- An improbable love -- The unbearable whiteness of being -- Reflections on a native son -- A sickness of the soul -- An alphabet of future nightmares -- Clark's York -- Jerome Charyn: innovative detective -- Somewhere over the rainbow -- Booked solid -- "Dirty": words and research -- America placed on trial.
Summary The author, a 1999 National Book Award finalist, presents a collection of critical essays, articles, and reviews.
Subject Criticism.
Essays.
Afro-American authors.
Literature.
Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary collections.
Black authors.
Other Form: Online version: Major, Clarence. Necessary distance. 1st ed. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Available to the trade through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, ©2001 (OCoLC)605294700
Online version: Major, Clarence. Necessary distance. 1st ed. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Available to the trade through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, ©2001 (OCoLC)606513281
ISBN 1566891094
9781566891097
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