Black folk could fly : selected writings /

A personal, social and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual and a Southerner, Randa...

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Main Author: Kenan, Randall (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022].
Edition:First edition.
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