Cover of Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus

by Saadi A. Simawe

2000 275 pages eng

In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its Orphic, magical power to unsettle oppressive realities, to liberate the soul and to create, at least temporarily, a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocation…

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