Volume 11, Number 11 · December 19, 1968
The Black Arts
By Jack Richardson
Rebellion or Revolution?
by Harold Cruse
Morrow, 212 pp., $6.95
Black Fire
edited by LeRoi Jones, edited by Larry Neal
Morrow, 670 pp., $8.95
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
by James Baldwin
Dial, 496 pp., $5.95
Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver
McGraw-Hill, 210 pp., $5.95
Just to set down the phrase 'Negro Literature' releases in any sensible mind all the ambiguities of a situation that has become so viciously consuming, so semantically, aesthetically, and politically abrasive, that there might seem to be now no way of treating the works of black writers except as curious symptoms of a social agony. Negro critics and polemicists are continually demanding that a literature arise to complement the new racial psychology, a literature with its own identity and standards that will break away from Western traditions of judgment and become a special expression of the black sensibility.
Review, 4361 words
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