Clarence Major and his art : portraits of an African American postmodernist
Bernard W. Bell (Editor)
Poet, novelist, essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer and painter, Clarence Major is a challenging yet underappreciated contemporary African- American artist. This collection combines poetry, prose and art by Major with critical essays that showcase his aesthetic movement across boundaries.
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2001
Aufsatzsammlung
281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807825860, 9780807848999, 0807825867, 0807848999
44131790
Introduction: Clarence Major's Transgressive Voice and Double Consciousness as an African American Postmodernist Artist / Bernard W. Bell
The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage
Inscription for the First Baptist Church as It Comes Out on Saturday to Park
The General Sense of Self
Conflict
The Unfaithful Wife: A New Philosophy
Private Line
Motion Picture
Vietnam
Author of an Attitude
Dismal Moment Passing
My Child
The Design
Overbreak
Excerpt from Dirty Bird Blues
Excerpt from Such Was the Season
Excerpt from My Amputations
Excerpt from Reflex and Bone Structure
Excerpt from All-Night Visitors
Necessary Distance: Afterthoughts on Becoming a Writer / Clarence Major
"I Follow My Eyes": An Interview with Clarence Major / Larry McCaffery and Jerzy Kutnik
Reading the Painterly Text: Clarence Major's "The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage" / Linda Furgerson Selzer
To Define an Ultimate Dimness: The Poetry of Clarence Major / Nathaniel MacKey
Clarence Major's Innovative Fiction / Jerome Klinkowitz
The Double Vision of Clarence Major: Painter and Writer / Lisa C. Roney
Reflex and Bone Structure: The Black Anti-Detective Novel / Stephen F. Soitos
Clarence Major's All-Night Visitors: Calibanic Discourse and Black Male Expression / James W. Coleman
"I Was a Weird Example of Art": My Amputations as Cubist Confession / Stuart Xlawans
Clarence Major's Homecoming Voice in Such Was the Season / Bernard W. Bell
Against Commodification: Zuni Culture in Clarence Major's Native American Texts / Steve Hayward
Clarence Major's Singing Voice(s) / Joe Weixlmann
Selected Bibliography of Clarence Major's Works