Author: Kenneth Warren

Cited by

• Lovaleserie & Moody-Turner Shirley King (1)
  • IN: Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2013) American Literature, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But whether an author protested Jim Crow directly or strived to produce a work in which race didn't matter, what made African American literature a literature was the historical circumstance in which black literary achievement could cound, almost automatically, as an effort on behalf of the "race" as a whole. That circumstance was Jim Crow or legalised segregation. We are no longer in that moment. Nothing makes the work of any individual black writer a matter for the "race" as a whole.
    FROM: The End of African American Literature? A Chat with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Ken Warren, (2011), Interview, US