Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 7 months ago
Views - 1
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Nov 2001
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Albert Murray Pantheon Books, 2001 - African American arts - 195 pages In "From the Briarpatch File--a gathering of erudite, provocative, and iconoclastic essays, reviews, and interviews--Albert Murray approaches contemporary America through its artistic expressions of itself and through the inventiveness of his own thinking and experience. He writes about New York in the 1920s and about the beginnings of his career as a writer. He gives us profound assessments of the achievements of Duke Ellington and William Faulkner. He outlines the responsibilities of the black educated elite and discusses the near-tragic, near-comic essence of the blues. His subject is no less than the life of America today; the clarity and the singularity of his vision, thought, and language are no less than stunning.
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From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure and American Identity
ISBN: 9780375421426
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In "From the Briarpatch File--a gathering of erudite, provocative, and iconoclastic essays, reviews, and interviews--Albert Murray approaches contemporary America through its artistic expressions of i...
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