{"title":"Bourbon for Breakfast","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"A tall, big-boned woman, with a gray sweater thrown across her curved shoulders, comes toward her with her hand extended.\u0000 They shake. Edna thinks her own hand in the woman’s looks like a child’s.\u0000 The big woman says, “Edna Nowell? Yes, I thought so. Thanks for agreeing to meet me here in Philly. Sorry I wasn’t able to fly you up here or meet you in the capitol. You know my mother lives in Seattle? You’d have to move out there.”...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123829476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clay Bison in a Cave","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Clay-tan, eyeless,\u0000 voiceless, even in a sense weightless,\u0000 in motion yet motionless still\u0000 for centuries and centuries,\u0000 stuck in this motion\u0000 of climbing, perhaps lost, these\u0000 two Paleolithic bison,\u0000 heads lifted, strained back\u0000 to the black endless sky,\u0000 as they climb toward sunny grass.\u0000 Which black sky? Which grass?...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121532939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"September Mendocino","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0036","url":null,"abstract":"What do you hear up here?\u0000 Same Shasta air, same Nevada air,\u0000 same Sierra Nevada air, same rainsong air\u0000 that lured Walt Whitman when he heard it.\u0000 But it is easier\u0000 to find what is left of Walt Whitman\u0000 these days, not in the sand, but...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133080966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Paris Fantasy Transformed","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Paris! Why Paris? Why did I—or any African American artist or writer—go to Paris?\u0000 When I was a teenager in the 1950s, African American artists (and writers, dancers, jazz musicians, actors) had already enjoyed a long relationship with Paris. Even before the end of slavery, free mulattos, some of them artists, were traveling to Paris and other parts of Europe. They went for many different reasons. One of the best known of those who went in the nineteenth century was the painter Henry O. Tanner....","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127587621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wallace Thurman and the Niggeratti Manor","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps best known for his successful 1929 Broadway play Harlem (written in collaboration with William Jourdan Rapp), Wallace Thurman is all but forgotten today. There is some documented evidence that Thurman wrote a number of other plays, none of which were ever produced. He was born in Salt Lake City in 1902, and he died in New York City in 1934, young and destitute. Author of three novels, ...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"225 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116640257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water and Sand","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Today. A scattering of fishing boats. A lost kite.\u0000 A scattering of geese and ducks.\u0000 Fishermen working ropes along a ropewalk.\u0000 Last night. In the night sky a falling comet,\u0000 like a stroke flashing down through the brain. No sound.\u0000 If sound, it would be that of a newborn screaming....","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125095058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Thanks for the Lunch, Baby.”","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"It’s hard to believe but after thirty-one years, I’m once again back in Nice, France. I taught here from 1981 till 1983. This time my stay will be brief.\u0000 Back then, my old friend James Baldwin was living a short distance away, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.\u0000 Today, as I step out of the blazing sunshine into the cool Restaurant Tolentini (Jimmy’s favorite restaurant in all of Nice), I see that Jimmy has already arrived for our lunch. There he is again, with that famous, wide-open smile....","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131874502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Surfaces and Masks","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0054","url":null,"abstract":"and who must remain\u0000 stuck with the idea\u0000 that the Byzantine is “unlovely”\u0000 or with the notion that\u0000 a “cultivated Negro” is necessary in a country\u0000 where one does not expect to find him,\u0000 available\u0000 and speaking many languages, causing one to\u0000 feel ignorant?\u0000 Had he been a son of North Africa...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126479955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Father","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.32388/0o4skb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/0o4skb","url":null,"abstract":"I was there looking for the house\u0000 where my father died.\u0000 An old neighborhood,\u0000 clean and orderly,\u0000 with flower gardens flanking each front door.\u0000 Windows covered with white lace,\u0000 behind which nobody seemed to live.\u0000 Thanks to a restless cloudy sky,\u0000 a gray light hung over it all....","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132031469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From “Taking Chances: A Memoir of a Life in Art and Writing”","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Part 4 includes the memoir “Taking Chances: A Memoir of a Life in Art and Writing.” In it, Major explores his family, his childhood and upbringing, his early experience with art, and his life in Chicago. He introduces us to his mother, father, and sister, as well as friends, literary figures, and others who he knew or influenced him. He also details a trip to Omaha, Nebraska where he experienced segregation, and then his move to Manhattan in 1966. The reader also learns about the trips Major took as a research analyst for the Simulmatics Corporation, where he analyzed how people responded to news coverage of racial violence. Major also discusses his early career, success as a writer, and his academic jobs.","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115236262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}