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 R. V. Cassill
I suspect some of the very real passion and vitality of McPherson's [collection of stories in "Hue and Cry"] may be overlooked because of the red-h...
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Critical Essay by Laurence Lafore
[In "Hue and Cry" McPherson] writes in an unmannered, unhurried, unexcited way that adumbrates its own literary form. The stories are uneven, but they a...
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Critical Essay by Robie Macauley
For the most part, [McPherson has been] able to look beneath skin color and clichés of attitude into the hearts of his characters…. This is a fairly rare...
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James Alan McPherson
