Glenn Ligon quote — “Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, be…”

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Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent.

Glenn Ligon

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