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Two Thumbs Down: The Early Reviews of What Have Become Today's Black Literary Classics
From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Date: 20040101
Author:Anonymous
The literary works of early black authors such as Richard Wright and Charles Chesnutt faced an army of literary critics whose reviews were shaped by powerful beliefs that Negroes were not capable of creating important literature. But many works that received negative reviews when first published turned out to be part of today's literary canon.
Today the works of black authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Charles W. Chesnutt, among many others, are required reading in college courses throughout the nation. At many colleges and universities the ...
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