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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Literary collections Criticism, interpretation, etc Black authors Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Major, Clarence. Necessary distance. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Available to the trade through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, c2001 (OCoLC)605294700 Online version: Major, Clarence. Necessary distance. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Available to the trade through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, c2001 (OCoLC)606513281 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Clarence Major |
| ISBN: | 1566891094 9781566891097 |
| OCLC Number: | 45582541 |
| Description: | 239 p. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Clarence Major. |
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Abstract:
The author, a 1999 National Book Award finalist, presents a collection of critical essays, articles, and reviews.
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