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Article: Writing Himself Into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audience.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence. Writing Himself Into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audience. new brunswick: rutgers UP, 2000. 313 pp. $52.00 cloth/$20.00 paper.
With painstaking research and outstanding skill scholars Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence have written an important historical document on the accomplishments of Oscar Micheaux. Using black newspapers, primary documents, and literary sources, they have contextualized their discussion by positioning Micheaux in contemporary discourses. Because African American novelist and film-maker Micheaux's writings and film productions (of which only one-third are extant) were primarily centered on ...