W Lawrence Hogue The African Americ...

W Lawrence Hogue The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History. novel York: SUNY P, 2003. 291 pp ISBN 0-7914-5694-3 $2795

[I]t is worth remembering that undivided of the implicitly creative

functions of art in the U.S.A. (and certainly of narrative art) is

the defining and correlating of diverse American experiences by way of

bringing previously unknown patterns, details and emotions into view

along with those that are generally recognized.

--Ralph Ellison, "The Little Man at Chehaw