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Author:	Darryl Pinckney	Edition:	1
Publisher:	Basic Books	ISBN-10:	0465057608
Subject:	Social Sciences	ISBN-13:	9780465057603
Topic:	--	Format:	Hardcover
Language:	--	Publication Year:	2002
Condition:	Good	Special Attributes:	--

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Pinckney explores the groundbreaking work of three black authors, J. A. Rogers, Vincent O. Carter, and Caryl Phillips. The essays presented here were initially delivered as Alain Lock Lectures at Harvard University.
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Length:	160 pages
Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	8.8 oz.

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One of our most provocative African American novelists affirms the literary power of the African diaspora with an eloquent appreciation of three writers from very different places and times. With this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a lot to tell us about the history of a people who are always "outsiders." Born in Jamaica in 1883, J. A. Rogers was an early member of the Harlem Renaissance--a newspaper columnist, historian of Negro achievement, polemicist against white supremacy, and amateur sociologist of interracial sex as evidenced in his massive three-volume work Sex and Race. Vincent O. Carter, who came of age in 1920's Kansas City, wrote The Bern Book, an exploration of being black in a Swiss rather than an American setting. Caryl Phillips, a son of the generation of black Caribbeans who returned to Great Britain after the Second World War, has explored the psychology of migration in fiction and nonfiction that include The Final Passage, Higher Ground, and The Nature of Blood. Pinckney's essays on these writers, drawn from his Alain Locke Lectures at Harvard University, give us a rich understanding of what it has meant to be "children of the diaspora" over the past century.
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"[T]he three writers whose literary lives inform the pages of Pinckney's collection...are treated with Pinckney's own eccentricity of approach..., full of great personal feeling, intellectual curiosity, and original, groundbreaking research." New York Review of Books - Lorrie Moore (10/10/2002)

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Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature

Darryl Pinckney

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	0465057608
Publication Date:	2002-04
Publisher:	Basic Civitas Books

Pages:	176
Height:	0.6900 inches
Width:	6.2200 inches
Weight:	0.5600 pounds

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