Hi, Robert! Thank you for this. In the late seventies, in an attempt to gain some insight into the black experience, I read a spate of books—The Outsider, Native Son, Soul On Ice and the Autobiography of Malcom X. Maybe others I’ve forgotten. In any case, I have read very little related literature since then. I have not read Beloved, nor The Color Purple. All of which is just to say thank you for putting this on my “radar screen” again.
Thank you. Since the Color Purple and Beloved were both published in the '80s, they would not have been part of that cluster of books. So you're excused. I just wish I had started as early as you did.
Truly wonderful commentary. Thank you.
Thank you, Marcella. I missed you at the book group.
Hi, Robert! Thank you for this. In the late seventies, in an attempt to gain some insight into the black experience, I read a spate of books—The Outsider, Native Son, Soul On Ice and the Autobiography of Malcom X. Maybe others I’ve forgotten. In any case, I have read very little related literature since then. I have not read Beloved, nor The Color Purple. All of which is just to say thank you for putting this on my “radar screen” again.
Thank you. Since the Color Purple and Beloved were both published in the '80s, they would not have been part of that cluster of books. So you're excused. I just wish I had started as early as you did.
Hah--yes, but then I stopped!