Elbow Room | Robie Macauley
In the following review, Macauley pays praise to the many virtues—including depth, control, and humanity—Mcpherson displays in the stories in Elbow Room.
Robie Macauley
In the following review, Macauley pays praise to the many virtues—including depth, control, and humanity—Mcpherson displays in the stories in Elbow Room.
With his first book of stories, Hue and Cry, James Alan Mcpherson established his standpoint as that of a writer and a black, but not that of a black writer. He refused to let his fiction fall into any color-code or ethnic code, remarking, "Certain of the people happen to be black and certain happen to be white; but I have tried to keep the color part of most of them far in the...
[The entire page is 747 words long]
Join eNotes
The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:
Summary and Analysis – Themes – Characters – And much more...
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Tell a friend about Elbow Room at eNotes.
