Out There

by Darryl Pinckney

Book Overview

With this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a lot to tell us about the history of a people who are always "outsiders." Born in Jamaica in 1883, J. A. Rogers was an early member of the Harlem Renaissance -- a newspaper columnist, historian of Negro achievement, polemicist against white supremacy, and amateur sociologist of interracial sex as evidenced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465057608
• ISBN13: 9780465057603
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

An intriguing and thoughtful account

Mavericks of black literature are the focus of these essays, considering such under-mentioned writers as J.A. Rogers, an early member of the Harlem Renaissance and pioneering journalist; and Vincent Carter, who lived as a voluntary expatriate writer in Europe. Out There is an intriguing and thoughtful account of a very unusual set of black writers.