Observer, Feb 16, 1986. p.28

'The fiction of a superpower', Malcolm Bradbury.

Malcolm Bradbury’s overview of modern American writing includes:

‘Then there was Black American fiction, which took on a new force from the impact of Existentialist thought on Black novelists. With Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), Richard Wright’s The Outsider (1953) and James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) the black novel, like the Jewish novel, pointed up a major moral crisis in American life’.