Black Literature: Beyond Bourgeois Pleading and “Achievement”
[Pictured: Richard Wright sitting on a sofa, Lido, Venice, 1950. (Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images)]By Jerome LouisonWhat makes a Black novel (poem, play, or non-fiction work) truly great? Since the time of Phyllis Wheatley, Black writers in Am…
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