Clarence Major and his art : portraits of an African American postmodernist / edited by Bernard W. Bell. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001. - 281 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

0807825867 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807848999 (pbk.)


Major, Clarence--Criticism and interpretation.


Postmodernism--United States.

N6537.M337 / .A4 2001

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