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Book

Collected essays & memoirs

Call Number

  • 814 M9811 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2016]

Physical Description

xi, 1049 pages ; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Notes

Selected nonfiction writings originally published 1964-2004.

Contents

  • The omni-Americans
  • South to a very old place
  • The hero and the blues
  • Stomping the blues
  • The blue devils of Nada
  • From the briarpatch file
  • Other writings. "The problem" is not just black and white ; U.S. Negroes and U.S. Jews : no cause for alarm ; "Soul" : thirty-two meanings not in your dictionary ; "Stone" : definition and usage ; Two nations? Only two? ; Bearden in theory and ritual ; Three omni-American artists ; Jazz : notes toward a definition
  • Chronology.

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