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Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson.
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Elbow Room - James Alan Mcpherson - 1977
Introduction
"Elbow Room" (1977), a short story about a biracial couple, is part of a collection that made James Alan McPherson the first African...
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Among black American short-story writers who came into prominence during the 1960s and 1970s, James Alan McPherson is one of the most gifted. Appearing in numerous "year's best" or "prize" story colle...
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The articulated vision of James Alan McPherson needs to be understood as a product of both time and place. Though his writing has a cosmopolitan quality to it that separated him from many of his conte...
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Critical Essay by Diane Johnson
In the stories of [Elbow Room] the ordinary white reader will at first feel at home. There are some men's magazine tall tales about romantic barroom types—...
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Critical Essay by The New Yorker
[Mr. McPherson] is one of those rare writers who can tell a story, describe shadings of character, and make sociological observations with equal subtlety…. [One...
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Critical Essay by Robert Phillips
[Because] McPherson has never taken the color of his skin as an excuse for not learning the craft of fiction, his tales ultimately become not so much about the black ...
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Elbow Room - James Alan Mcpherson - 1977
James Alan McPherson
Critical Essay by Diane Johnson
