Title: From the briarpatch file
Subtitle: on context, procedure, and American identity
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Political and social views, African American arts, Social conditions, American Arts, African Americans, Soziale Situation, Cultuur, Intellektueller, Negers, New York Times reviewed
Places: United States
People: Albert Murray
Time periods: 20th century, 1945-
LC classification: E169.12 .M88 2001