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This reader collects sixty of the personal essays, critical articles, and other seminal works of Addison Gayle Jr., one of the most influential figures in African American literary criticism and a key pioneer in the Black Arts/Black Aesthetic Movement. The volume contains selective essays that represent the range of Gayle's writing on such subjects as relationships between father and son, cultural nationalism, racism, black aesthetics, black criticism, and black literature. The collection, the first of its kind, includes definitive essays such as "Blueprint for Black Criticism," "The Harlem Renaissance: Toward a Black Aesthetic," and "Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetics." A key chapter from Gayle's autobiography is supplemented by his literary criticism, and a general introduction and editor's notes for each section discuss the articles' lasting significance and influence.
Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Credits xvii
Chronology xxi
Introduction xxiii
PART 1: BLACK SITUATIONS
1. White Experts -- Black Subjects 3
2. Letter to a White Colleague 8
3. The Cabinet of the Mind 14
4. Nat Turner and the Black Nationalists 24
5. Black Power and Existential Politics 29
6. Black Power or Black Fascism? 36
7. "Hell No, Black Men Won't Go!" 42
8. Racism and the American University 50
9. Dreams of a Native Son 60
PART 2: BLACK AESTHETICS
10. The Harlem Renaissance: Towards a Black Aesthetic 71
11. The Black Aesthetic: The Defender 81
12. Cultural Nationalism: The Black Novelist in America 92
13. Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic 101
14. Separate, Not Mutual Estates 107
15. Reclaiming the Southern Experience: The Black Aesthetic 10 Years Later 116
16. The Negro Critic: Invisible Man in American Literature: An Essay Review 124
17. The Politics of Revolution: Afro-American Literature 131
18. Revolutionary Philosophy: Three Black Writers 139
19. The Function of Black Literature at the Present Time 148
PART 3: LITERARY CRITICISM
20. Blueprint for Black Criticism 159
21. The Function of Black Criticism at the Present Time 170
22. The Critic, the University, and the Negro Writer 176
23. Cultural Hegemony: The Southern White Writer and American Letters 180
24. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet of the Whirlwind 193
25. A Defense of James Baldwin 201
26. Richard Wright: Beyond Nihilism 207
27. Langston Hughes: A Simple Commentary 212
28. The Literature of Protest 216
29. Literature as Catharsis: The Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar 220
30. The Dialectic of The Fire Next Time 230
PART 4: BOOK INTRODUCTIONS, FOREWORDS, AND PREFACES
31. Youngblood by John Oliver Killens (Foreword) 235
32. 'Sippi by John Oliver Killens (Foreword) 239
33. Five on the Black Hand Side: A Play in Three Acts by Charlie L. Russell (Introduction) 244
34. Forerunners: Black Poets in America by Woodie King Jr. (Introduction) 248
35. Great Gitt'in Up Morning: The Story of Denmark Vesey by John Oliver Killens (Introduction) 258
36. Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin by John Killens (Introduction) 265
37. Black Expression: Essays by and about Black Americans in the Creative Arts (Preface) 272
38. Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Introduction) 280
39. Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son (Introduction) 285
40. Claude McKay: The Poet at War (Introduction) 292
41. The Black Aesthetic (Introduction) 297
42. Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond: The Prose of Black Americans (Introduction) 304
43. The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America (Introduction) 308
44. The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America (Afterword) 319
PART 5: BOOK REVIEWS
45. Two Views of . . .'Winesellers'. . .A Yea Say 325
46. Coming Home by George Davis 326
47. An Open Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Book Review 330
48. Ludell: Beyond Native Son by Brenda Wilkinson 334
49. Onyx Magazine: The Politics of Survival 340
50. Reviews: FLight to Canada by Ishmael Reed/Eva's Man by Gayl Jones 344
51. What We Must See -- Young Black Storytellers edited and introduction by Orde Coombs/The Hungered One -- Early Writings by Ed Bullins 350
52. Blueschild Baby by George Cain 353
53. Love STory Black by William Demby 355
PART 6: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
54. Addison Gayle: Interviewed by Saundra Towns 359
55. I Endured 381
56. The Son of My Father 389
57. Excerpt from Wayward Child: A Personal Odyssey 400
58. Black Fathers and Their Sons: Part I 413
59. Black Fathers and Their Sons: Part II 424
60. The Children of Bigger Thomas 431
Selected Bibliography 441
Index 445
