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The Self, As Ensemble, The Prose, Like Jazz—On Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place

Explicit By

Thomas Larson

| 27 May 2022 Features Books, Essays, Explicit, Reviews African-American literature, Albert Murray, Society (Multitudes), blues, civil rights, culture, identity, intellectual history, jazz, memoir, modernism, race, white supremacy

A paean to Albert Murray and his hybrid memoir/literary criticism masterpiece of 1971, South to a Very Old Place.