Portrait of an Expatriate: William Gardner Smith, Writer

by Buelette E. Hodges

Overview

LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., has written a lively and informative biography of a Black writer of merit whose works have not enjoyed the wide readership they deserve. Interweaving discussion and criticism of William Gardner Smith's literary work with an account of his life, Hodges provides summaries and critical evaluations of Smith's novels and his nonfiction. He gives us insight into the experience of Black writers who chose to live abroad and looks searchingly at the problem of alienation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313248825
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/14/1985
Series:	Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets , #91
Pages:	145
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
1. Growing up in South Philadelphia
2. Writing out of the Ghetto
3. On the Way to Paris
4. Maturing in Europe
5. From Paris to Africa
6. Returban to Paris and America
7. Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Notes
Bibliography
Index