The man who cried I am a novel
"The return to print of a classic novel of postwar American literature credited with being the most accurate fictional portrayal of the promises and bitter disappointments that heralded the expatriation of Black intellectuals and artists. The protagonist of John Williams's angry and brilli...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Library of America
2023
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African Americans
> African American authors
> Civil rights movements
> Interracial marriage
> African American men
> Americans
> Expatriation
> Segregation
> Racism
> Noirs américains - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Écrivains noirs américains - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Mouvements des droits de l'homme - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Mariage interracial - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Hommes noirs américains - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Ségrégation - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Racisme - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Fiction
> Political fiction
> Psychological fiction
> Novels
> Amsterdam (Netherlands)
> Paris (France)
> Europe
> France - Paris
> Netherlands - Amsterdam
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The return to print of a classic novel of postwar American literature credited with being the most accurate fictional portrayal of the promises and bitter disappointments that heralded the expatriation of Black intellectuals and artists. The protagonist of John Williams's angry and brilliant novel The Man Who Cried I Am is Max Reddick, a Black American writer--a gifted novelist, a journalist, and a presidential speechwriter--who has spent his career fighting against the racism of white elites and the blacks who have copied their liberal positions. Now terminally ill, Reddick has nothing to lose. The novel takes place in a single day in May 1964 in Amsterdam and Leiden but through Max's reflections charts his journey through the 1940s and 50s, from New York to his expatriation in Paris, Amsterdam, and Africa, as he considers who he was, who he has become, and who he might yet be"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xxxiv, 456 pages 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 159853761X 1-59853-761-X 9781598537611 978-1-59853-761-1 |