An Introduction to Black Literature in America: From 1746 to the PresentLindsay Patterson Publishers Agency, 1976 - 302 pages |
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... writer is imprisoned in his own alienation , which ultimately restricts his scope and limits his subject matter . This is not his fault , for the writer has to contend with everyday problems like every other Afro - American , and it ...
... writer is imprisoned in his own alienation , which ultimately restricts his scope and limits his subject matter . This is not his fault , for the writer has to contend with everyday problems like every other Afro - American , and it ...
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... writers to flounder , taking their cues only from the white establishment - who do not , in many cases , understand their problems and needs . Whereas many of the writers of a generation ago imitated whites , the young black writer ...
... writers to flounder , taking their cues only from the white establishment - who do not , in many cases , understand their problems and needs . Whereas many of the writers of a generation ago imitated whites , the young black writer ...
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... writers seemed sufficiently encouraged by the results to continue in the same direction . Whatever it was that blocked the Negro writer of fiction , that denied him the kind of acceptance accorded the Negro maker of music , for example ...
... writers seemed sufficiently encouraged by the results to continue in the same direction . Whatever it was that blocked the Negro writer of fiction , that denied him the kind of acceptance accorded the Negro maker of music , for example ...
Contents
Introduction Lindsay Patterson | 5 |
A Plan of Peace Office for the United States Benjamin Banneker | 17 |
Poetry | 27 |
Copyright | |
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