[PJ-Comix]

A lot of "Black" literature out there is really terrible. Mostly banal stuff. However, The Invisible Man is one of the best novels ever written. The fictionalized Tuskeegee Institute was really interesting plus a lot of the stuff with his party (communist but not specifically identified) in the book. Ellison also brutally satirized liberal whites. BTW, did you notice that we never did learn the name of the main character in the book? I wonder why it was never made into a movie?

[BluesDuke]

I often wonder why Invisible Man wasn't made into a film; it would have been a magnificent film in the right hands. Come to think of it, I also thought (and think) the world of Go Tell It On The Mountain. It is a pity that James Baldwin (whose collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, remains remarkable; like Go Tell It On The Mountain in fiction, Notes of a Native Son evoked and bespoke the soul of the black experience of the time without its author descending into what today's critic might call a posture of, how best to phrase it, "professional blackness") dissipated his remarkable talent in the acid bath of what we would call today political correctness. (Paul Johnson has written enlighteningly of Baldwin's striking transformation into that sort of writer and polemicist in his 1989 book Intellectuals.)