![]() ![]() And while he’s not the first to suggest this, Young also notes that the idea of America is itself a dream, “a fabrication dependent on African-American labor.” Storying is a way to counterfeit, even invert, white authority and, eventually, counterfeit freedom provides for the real thing. Dreaming, “storying,” the artful dodge-these are essential strategies for the survival of an oppressed people. In the process, he argues for “the centrality of black people to the American experience, to the dream of America.”ĭreams are important here. ![]() “Tradition,” writes Kevin Young, “is not what you inherit, but what you seek, and then seek to keep.” In this book, winner of Graywolf Press’s Nonfiction Prize, Young ranges over his own cultural inheritance, exploring, uncovering, and reclaiming the meanings embedded in the art of African American writers, poets, and musicians, and mapping their influence on white artists and American culture. ![]()
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