SOURCE: "Black Autobiography in Africa and America," in Black Academy Review, Vol. 2, No. 1&2, Spring-Summer, 1971, pp. 61-70.
In the following essay, Bruchac discusses similarities between Black Boy by Richard Wright and The Dark Child by Camara Laye and places these works in the tradition of black autobiography that begins with The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African (1789).
This is a free excerpt of 63 words. There are 3,844 words (approx.
13 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our American Autobiography: Joseph Bruchac Access Pass.
