Black Literature Revisited: "Sonny's Blues"

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1971Publisher:National Council of Teachers of EnglishJournal:The English Journal, volume 60, page 36 (issn: 0013-8274,

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Authors: Elaine R. Ognibene;

doi: 10.2307/813336 , 10.58680/ej197119094

Black Literature Revisited: "Sonny's Blues"

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B ARBARA Dodds Stanford (English Journal, March 1969) calls black lit-i erature "a godsend to the teacher who wants his class to deal with genuine communication problems... ." Citing among others, two Baldwin classics: Notes of a Native Son and Go Tell It on the Mountain, she mentions that in such works "it is a relief to recognize our own struggle to find ourselves," and she further intimates that students can

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