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[Introduction To] Shuckin' And Jivin': Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans, Daryl Cumber Dance
[Introduction To] Shuckin' And Jivin': Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans, Daryl Cumber Dance
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An exciting new collection of Black American folklore, running the gamut from anecdotes concerning life among the slaves to obviously contemporary jokes. In their frank expression of racial attitudes and unexpurgated wit, these tales represent a radical departure from earlier collections.
James Baldwin, Daryl Cumber Dance
James Baldwin, Daryl Cumber Dance
English Faculty Publications
James Baldwin is one of America's best known and most controversial writers. If there is some figurative truth in his declarations "Nobody Knows My Name" and "No Name in the Street," on a realistic level practically everyone knows his name, from people on the street to scholars in the most prestigious universities-and they all respond to him. Those responses are as diverse and as antithetical as the respondents. Indeed, there is little unanimity in the criticism of James Baldwin: some view him as a prophet preaching love and salvation, others as a soothsayer forecasting death and destruction; some see him …