Clarence Major and his art
Subtitle: portraits of an African American postmodernist
By: edited by Bernard W. Bell.
Contributors: Bell, Bernard W.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Major, Clarence -- Criticism and interpretation; Postmodernism -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I; title: I; title: POETRY; title: 13 "The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage"; title: 27 "Inscription for the First Baptist Church; title: as It Comes Out on Saturday to Park"; title: 28 "The General Sense of Self"; title: 29 "Conflict"; title: 30 "The Unfaithful Wife: A New Philosophy"; title: 31 "Private Line"; title: 32 "Motion Picture"; title: 33 "Vietnam"; title: 34 "Author of an Attitude"; title: 35 "Dismal Moment Passing"; title: 36 "My Child"; title: 37 "The Design"; title: 39 "Overbreak"; title: PROSE; title: 43 Excerpt from Dirty Bird Blues; title: 46 Excerpt from Such Was the Season; title: 5o Excerpt from My Amputations; title: 54 Excerpt from Reflex and Bone Structure; title: 57 Excerpt from All-Night Visitors; title: 63 Necessary Distance: Afterthoughts on Becoming a Writer; title: CLARENCE MAJOR; title: 77 "I Follow My Eyes": An Interview with Clarence Major; title: LARRY MCCAFFERY AND IERZY KUTNIK; title: CRITICAL ESSAYS; title: sol Reading the Painterly Text: Clarence Major's "The Slave Trade:; title: View from the Middle Passage"; title: LINDA FURGERSON SELZER; title: 133 To Define an Ultimate Dimness: The Poetry of Clarence Major; title: NATHANIEL MACKEY; title: 151 Clarence Major's Innovative Fiction; title: IEROME KLINKOWITZ; title: 161 The Double Vision of Clarence Major: Painter and Writer; title: LISA C. RONEY; title: 175 Reflex and Bone Structure: The Black Anti-Detective Novel; title: STEPHEN F. SOITOS; title: 189 Clarence Major's All-Night Visitors:; title: Calibanic Discourse and Black Male Expression; title: JAMES W. COLEMAN; title: 207 "I Was a Weird Example of Art":; title: My Amputations as Cubist Confession; title: STUART KLAWANS; title: 219 Clarence Major's Homecoming Voice in Such Was the Season; title: BERNARD W. BELL; title: 227 Against Commodification:; title: Zuni Culture in Clarence Major's Native American Texts; title: STEVE HAYWARD; title: 243 Clarence Major's Singing Voice(s); title: JOE WEIXLMANN; title: 265 Selected Bibliography of Clarence Major's Works; title: 273 Contributors; title: 275 Index; title: PAINTINGS; title: following The Embrace; title: page 150 Grief; title: Self Portrait; title: Five Figures; title: Woman with Child; title: My Room; title: Trees; title: Five Trees; title: Night Watchman; title: Country Boogie; title: Love at First Sight; title: Party; title: View: Hotel Raito; title: Eight Children; title: Knitting on the Porch; title: Pose.