Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• DAVID BRADLEY
• LEWIS M. DABNEY

Titel

A GREAT MAN’S LIMITATIONS

Ist Teil von

• Edmund Wilson, 2014, p.233

Ort / Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As a young person who took ideas seriously yet had all the emotional immaturity which youth suggests, I was angered by a need to wonder, hurt personally by the facts of intellectual life, from a black perspective. But eventually I came to feel a sort of sorrow. Not sorrow at what this meant to me, but sorrow at what this ultimately meant for the major American thinkers and writers who could not speak to me. For to extend James Baldwin’s metaphor, what does the parent lose by ignoring a child, even if that child is a bastard? What does a