Addison Gayle Jr. Reader

Nathaniel Norment Jr. is an associate professor and chair of African American Studies at Temple University and the editor of The African American Studies Reader and Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features, And Perspectives.

“A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship about the Black Arts movement that had its roots in the widespread cultural and political ferment in African American life during the 1960s-70s. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice"An important addition to the literature on the Black Power, Black Arts, and Black Aesthetic movements."--The Journal of African American History "This excellent volume is a valuable addition to the wave of new work being produced on Black Power and Black Arts. It will be of great interest to students, scholars, and readers with a general interest in one of the leading literary critics and editors of the Black Arts Movement."--James Edward Smethurst, author of The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s

• Preface   xiAcknowledgments   xvCredits   xviiChronology   xxiIntroduction   xxiiiPART 1: BLACK SITUATIONS1. White Experts -- Black Subjects   32. Letter to a White Colleague   83. The Cabinet of the Mind   144. Nat Turner and the Black Nationalists   245. Black Power and Existential Politics   296. Black Power or Black Fascism?   367. "Hell No, Black Men Won't Go!"   428. Racism and the American University   509. Dreams of a Native Son   60PART 2: BLACK AESTHETICS10. The Harlem Renaissance: Towards a Black Aesthetic   7111. The Black Aesthetic: The Defender   8112. Cultural Nationalism: The Black Novelist in America   9213. Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic   10114. Separate, Not Mutual Estates   10715. Reclaiming the Southern Experience: The Black Aesthetic 10 Years Later   11616. The Negro Critic: Invisible Man in American Literature: An Essay Review   12417. The Politics of Revolution: Afro-American Literature   13118. Revolutionary Philosophy: Three Black Writers   13919. The Function of Black Literature at the Present Time   148PART 3: LITERARY CRITICISM20. Blueprint for Black Criticism   15921. The Function of Black Criticism at the Present Time   17022. The Critic, the University, and the Negro Writer   17623. Cultural Hegemony: The Southern White Writer and American Letters   18024. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet of the Whirlwind   19325. A Defense of James Baldwin   20126. Richard Wright: Beyond Nihilism   20727. Langston Hughes: A Simple Commentary   21228. The Literature of Protest   21629. Literature as Catharsis: The Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar   22030. The Dialectic of The Fire Next Time   230PART 4: BOOK INTRODUCTIONS, FOREWORDS, AND PREFACES31. Youngblood by John Oliver Killens (Foreword)   23532. 'Sippi by John Oliver Killens (Foreword)   23933. Five on the Black Hand Side: A Play in Three Acts by Charlie L. Russell (Introduction)   24434. Forerunners: Black Poets in America by Woodie King Jr. (Introduction)   24835. Great Gitt'in Up Morning: The Story of Denmark Vesey by John Oliver Killens (Introduction)   25836. Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin by John Killens (Introduction)   26537. Black Expression: Essays by and about Black Americans in the Creative Arts (Preface)   27238. Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Introduction)   28039. Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son (Introduction)   28540. Claude McKay: The Poet at War (Introduction)   29241. The Black Aesthetic (Introduction)   29742. Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond: The Prose of Black Americans (Introduction)   30443. The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America (Introduction)   30844. The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America (Afterword)   319PART 5: BOOK REVIEWS45. Two Views of . . .'Winesellers'. . .A Yea Say   32546. Coming Home by George Davis   32647. An Open Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Book Review   33048. Ludell: Beyond Native Son by Brenda Wilkinson   33449. Onyx Magazine: The Politics of Survival   34050. Reviews: FLight to Canada by Ishmael Reed/Eva's Man by Gayl Jones   34451. What We Must See -- Young Black Storytellers edited and introduction by Orde Coombs/The Hungered One -- Early Writings by Ed Bullins   35052. Blueschild Baby by George Cain   35353. Love STory Black by William Demby   355PART 6: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES54. Addison Gayle: Interviewed by Saundra Towns   35955. I Endured   38156. The Son of My Father   38957. Excerpt from Wayward Child: A Personal Odyssey   40058. Black Fathers and Their Sons: Part I   41359. Black Fathers and Their Sons: Part II   42460. The Children of Bigger Thomas   431Selected Bibliography   441Index   445