High Cotton (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Darryl Pinckney
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s through the end of the 1980’s
- Setting: Indianapolis, Indiana; New York City; parts of the American South; London, England; and Paris, France
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Grandfather Eustace, Aunt Clara, Uncle Castor, Jesse, Jeanette, Djuna Barnes, Bargetta
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Racism, Blacks, Race, South or Southerners, New York City, Midwest, Paris, 1980’s, Multiculturalism, London, Publishing or publishers
- Locales: New York, NY, South (U.S.), Paris, France, Indianapolis, IN, London, England
The Novel
“If you’re chopping in high cotton you’ve got it easier.” The narrator and protagonist of this novel has certainly had it easier than many of the black men of his generation. He is a member of the Also Chosen, a product of that educated black middle class that, according to W. E. B. Du Bois, would yield the “Talented Tenth,” the gifted minority who would lead the black race along the path of progress.
The narrator makes no claim to racial leadership. In fact, he rarely makes much of a claim to racial identity. Never an Africanist, he is for much of...
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