Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Roots: The Saga of an American Family Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • All in the Family
  • Roots and the Sunday Times
  • The Impact of Roots: Real or Imagined?
  • Haley's Roots and Our Own: An Inquiry into the Nature of a Popular Phenomenon
  • Roots: A New Black Myth
  • Plagiarism and the Roots Suits
  • Kneeling at the Fireplace: Black Vulcan-ROOTS and the Double Artificer
  • Roots and the Heroic Search for Identity
  • The Plastic Arts Motif in Roots
  • Roots and the Noble Savage
  • Roots, Violence, and the Context of Intention
  • Roots: Docudrama and the Interpretation of History
  • Everybody's Search for Roots: Alex Haley and the Black and White Atlantic
• Further Reading