Modern Black Novelists: A Collection of Critical Essays

20th Century Views

by Michael G. Cooke

The very thing that makes it imperative to come to a clear understanding of the condition of black people in America and abroad also makes it hard even to get a clear image. For that condition is markedly changing. Changing, first, from an enforced and confused uniformity to a complex identity in as well as with the group.Thus Addison Gayle, Jr., can write about the "black situation" but properly confesses that he speaks infallibly only for himself and insists that no one else speaks reliably for him.

219 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1971