Colloquially, with the rise of black consciousness in the US, the term Uncle Tom came to stand for slave complicity, and HBS
's work fell into both political and literary disrepute. James Baldwin
first attracted...
Literary responses
Gertrude Stein
Reviewers of GS
saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.
qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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H. G. Wells
read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration,
qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
Their Eyes Were Watching Godgenerally well received by white critics, including a reviewer for the New York Times who declared it a well nigh perfect story. On the other hand the leading black literary...
Literary responses
Carson McCullers
Among original reviewers, Richard Wright
judged that McCullers had captured the bleak landscape of the American consciousness below the Mason-Dixon line in a manner more natural and authentic than that of Faulkner
.
qtd. in
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 June 2015
Reception
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon was TM
's breakthrough novel. Reviewers' responses addressed her as a major figure. Reynolds Price
in the New York Times Book Review welcomed the book as a wise and spacious
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, editors. Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Amistad, 1993.
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yet...
Timeline
4 June 1940: The twenty-three-year-old Carson McCullers...
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4 June 1940
The twenty-three-year-old Carson McCullers
won a chorus of praise with her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, centred on a young white girl growing up in the racist American south.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 June 2008
1956: The Paris Congress brought together for discussion...
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1956
The Paris Congress brought together for discussion Black writers and artists from Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA.
White, Landeg. “The Dignity of Merchants”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, pp. 40-1.