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Article: The necessity of blacks' writing fiction about the South. (Black, South Fiction, Art, Culture)
- Article from:
- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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It is, I strongly feel, important for blacks to write fiction about the South. I say fiction because practically all of the books I've seen written about the South by blacks have been nonfiction, mostly black history. I am a history buff, so I know history is very important. Yet in wanting to learn about the everyday lives and thoughts of everyday people from any given society of any given people (and this includes black folks), nothing - I repeat, nothing - tells more about these people than does the fiction of the particular day. History written in 1991 rarely, if ever, captures the feel of 1891.
In getting this "feel" for the period written about, especially ...
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