Baldwin mentioned in relation to a critique of British cultural criticism
Source: Tribune
Anthony Arblaster, ‘The missing leaven in Modern Criticism’, Jan 25, 1963, Tribune, Volume 27, Issue 4, p. 10.
JB mentioned in relation to a critique of British cultural criticism ‘[..] there is a gap between the grandiose pronouncements of the cultural critics and the work of those who report on Particular daily experience. To be useful and effective, cultural criticism needs a greater leavening of sheer fact and observation than it contains today’.
JB’s work is praised in a previous section of the article: ‘a piece by the Negro writer James Baldwin stands out by virtue of the pressure of felt experiences behind it.’