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Cecil Brown

Book Reviews

Summer 1969

Pimping Blackness

By Cecil Brown

Whispers From A Continent: The Literature of Black Africa by Wilfred Cartey. Random House, $8.95. Setting itself up as an aesthetic criterion on literature has been the most unfortunate aspect […]

Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

Autumn/ November 1968

Apotheosis of a Prodigal Son

By Cecil Brown

On April 26, 1968, in Chicago, I had a chance to see a performance of LeRoi Jones’s The Dutchman at Circle Campus, and, on the following night, a performance of […]