What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence | Wilfred D. Samuels
In the following essay, Samuels gives a critical analysis of Wideman's life and work.
Wilfred D. Samuels
In the following essay, Samuels gives a critical analysis of Wideman's life and work.
During the 1960s, the architects of the black arts movement—Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal, Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Addison Gayle, and others—demanded that black writers use their talents and works for the betterment of the black community and black life, for "the liberation of black people." Arguing that the black arts movement was the "aesthetic and spiritual sister of the black power concept," for example, Neal admonished black artists...
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