Getting on
Joyce CarolOates, 12 January 1995
Colored People: A Memoir
by Henry Louis Gates.
Viking, 216 pp., £16, January 1995,0 670 85737 8 Show More
by Henry Louis Gates.
Viking, 216 pp., £16, January 1995,
“... As in one of Escher’s visual paradoxes, where infinity opens up vertiginously within a single geometric figure, object and anti-object define each other, and ‘foreground’ and ‘background’ are made to shift according to one’s perspective, the highly combustible issue of race in America, and its consequences in terms of the academic-literary canon, depend almost entirely on one’s position ... ”