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.
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Essays.
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Afro-American authors.
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Literature.
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Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary collections.
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Black authors.
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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 |
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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 |
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9781566891097 |
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