The Screamers (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Amiri Baraka
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: Newark, New Jersey
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Lynn Hope
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, United States or Americans, Racism, Blacks, Music or musicians, Jazz music
- Locales: Newark, NJ
The Story
The narrator and other patrons are in a Newark nightclub, waiting for Lynn Hope and his musicians to begin playing. Most of the crowd are African Americans whom the narrator divides into two groups: “our camp,” which includes those who have had some success, such as being light-skinned or lucky enough to have mothers who were social workers and fathers who were mail carriers, and “those niggers” of the lower class, who work in coin-operated laundries and beauty parlors. Lynn Hope and his men appeal to both groups, although the former cannot quite believe in...
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