Reviews for The Black American writer

The average rating for The Black American writer based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-24 00:00:00 Adam Howard a scots beatnik cuts through much received wisdom on baldwin, wright, baraka, williams, and updates much distorted history. the piece on james baldwin's fbi file is a revelation. his critiques are 100% right on, but is a little weak in his appreciation of some of the critically rejected work like jones' "home" or wright's "long dream", "outsider" etc, but this is a small quibble beside his magisterial conclusions and unearthings.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-10 00:00:00 Eric Castellani Totally should not have been the first hooks I read. It's a little repetitious, and there are some essays I utterly failed to connect with in any way (the spirituality ones, especially), and I wanted to throw the book across the room when she dismisses popular/mainstream writing and writers as inattentive to and uninterested in craft, but that is a pet peeve of mine. I'd like to know what hooks thinks of Octavia Butler -- a black female writer who writes explicitly and gorgeously about gender, race, and class, but does so in genre. Her point about how black female writers historically have often died young, and therefore cannot afford the niceties of waiting to write the family memoir until their parents are dead, though, that struck me. A lot.