Elbow Room | David Kelly
Kelly is an instructor of English literature and creative writing. In this essay, Kelly looks at the story as posing a philosophical rather than a social problem.
David Kelly
Kelly is an instructor of English literature and creative writing. In this essay, Kelly looks at the story as posing a philosophical rather than a social problem.
Anyone who has read James Alan Mcpherson's short story "Elbow Room" can see that it, like many of Mcpherson's works, is concerned with the complexities of race relations in America. At the story's center is a biracial couple, Paul and Virginia: he is white, and, as a member of the youth movement that came of age in the sixties and seventies, is ready to stand up against the racist traditions...
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