From the briarpatch file
Subtitle: on context, procedure, and American identity
By: Albert Murray.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Murray, Albert.; Murray, Albert -- Political and social views.; Arts, American -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; African American arts.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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."--BOOK JACKET.