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From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity
by Albert Murray
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Pantheon (2001-11-13)
ISBN: 0375421424
EAN: 9780375421426
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 208 pages
Edition: 1st
Release Date: 2001-11-13
SKU: 01161
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Brand new with some shelf wear--scuffs and minor edge wear.
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Product Description
In From the Briarpatch File—a gathering of erudite, provocative, and iconoclastic essays, reviews, and interviews—Albert Murray approaches contemporary America through its artistic expressions of itself and through the inventiveness of his own thinking and experience. He writes about New York in the 1920s and about the beginnings of his career as a writer. He gives us profound assessments of the achievements of Duke Ellington and William Faulkner. He outlines the responsibilities of the black educated elite and discusses the near-tragic, near-comic essence of the blues. His subject is no less than the life of America today; the clarity and the singularity of his vision, thought, and language are no less than stunning.
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