Black folk could fly : selected writings / Randall Kenan.

"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, Ra...

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Main Author: Kenan, Randall (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xv, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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