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Shadow and act
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- Summary
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Essays concerned with literature and folklore, Negro musical expression and the complex relationship between the Negro American and North American culture as a whole.
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- English
- Publication
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- New York, Random House [1964]
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 317 pages 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00269412, ocm00269412
- Also issued online.
- The seer and the seen : That same pain, that same pleasure: an interview -- Twentieth-century fiction and the black mask of humanity -- Change the joke and slip the yoke -- Stephen Crane and the mainstream of American fiction -- Richard Wright's blues -- Beating that boy -- Brave words for a startling occasion -- The world and the jug -- Hidden name and complex fate -- The art of fiction: an interview -- Sound and the mainstream : Living with music -- The golden age, time past -- As the spirit moves Mahalia -- On bird, bird-watching, and jazz -- The Charlie Christian story -- Remembering Jimmy -- Blues people -- The shadow and the act : Some questions and some answers -- The shadow and the act -- The way it is -- Harlem is nowhere -- An American dilemma: a review