The dark and feeling; Black American writers and their work. / By Clarence Major.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Major, Clarence.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

153 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Distribution:

New York, Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co., Inc.

Other Title:

Dark & Feeling

Place of Publication:

New York, The Third Press, 1974.

Contents:

Part One. The Tribal Terrain and the Technological Beast; Formula or Freedom; The Explosion of Black Poetry

Part Two. The Black Aesthetic Edited by Addison Gayle Jr.; Some Changes, Poems by June Jordan; catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church, Poems by Ishmael Reed; Blueschild Baby, a Novel by George Cain; The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, a Novel by Ernest J. Gaines

Part Three. Richard Wright: The Long Hallucination; James Baldwin: A Fired in the Mind; John A. Williams: The Black Writer who Cried I Am; Willard Motley: Vague Ghost after the Father; Frank London Brown: Reckless enough to be a Man; Eldridge Cleaver: And White Writers

Part Four. Work with the Universe: An interview with Clarence Major and Victor Hernandez Cruz; Self Interview: On Craft; Interview with Clarence Major; Black Criteria; On Censorship: An Open Letter to June Jordan.

Notes:

"Designed by Bennie Arrington."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy is "First printing".

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

089388118X

OCLC:

1023343