[lbo-talk] Modern American radicall fiction (& poetry) (Was Re: Brit lit goes to hell)

[dredmond at efn.org]

On Sat, July 7, 2007 11:12 pm, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> I think Toni Morrison is vastly overrated,
> anyway. Alice Walker, much better, is radical.

I have the opposite reaction - Walker's "Meridian" is a fine text, but her
later stuff is less interesting. But Morrison's "Bluest Eye" and "Beloved"
rank among the greatest texts of the 20th century.

-- DRR