Addison Gayle, Jr. (Editor)
Black Expression: Essays by and about Black Americans in the Creative Arts.
Weybright and Talley, 1969. xviii/394 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright.
"Although the Negro novelist has made a breakthrough of sorts into the long barricaded halls of the universities, the Negro critic remains outside much like Shelley's nightinggale, singing to cheer his own sweet solitude. As writers of fiction, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison are studies in more college classrooms today than any Negro writers heretofore; and yet, each of them has written competent criticism -- a fact unknown to those who appreciate their creative efforts."