The artificial white man
Subtitle: essays on authenticity
By: Stanley Crouch.
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Race relations in mass media; Mass media -- United States
Description: "The Artificial White Man proves the rightness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay." This time out, Crouch focuses his attention on issues surrounding the often misdirected American hunger for "authenticity." Though the essays range in topic from segregation in contemporary fiction to the racial politics of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, they are informed by a singular concern: our increasing difficulty in discerning the real from the counterfeit, the posture from the pose. In contemporary life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Blues to be authentic; title: Baby boy; title: Most vote for literary segregation, others don't; title: Appetite is the main course; title: Don't be like Mike; title: The artificial white man; title: The novel as blues suite; title: Jazz modernism : the late, late blues; title: More than one color : the films of Quentin Tarantino; title: Blues to go.