SOURCE: "Modern Black Autobiography in the Tradition," in Romanticism: Vistas, Instances, Continuities, edited by David Thorburn and Geoffrey Hartman, Cornell University Press, No. 1973, pp. 255-80.
In the following essay, Cooke discusses the autobiographical writings of Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver, three African American writers who have made "evolutionary contributions to the form of western autobiography. "
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