John Wideman [Videorecording] / an SSR-RTSI Swiss Television production ; a California Newsreel release.
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FilmReference number:27208768Series: In Black and white ; 6.Publication details: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1992. Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (26 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 inOther title: Conversations with African American writersSubject(s): Wideman, John Edgar -- Interviews | Afro-American authors -- InterviewsProduction credits: Director, Matteo Bellinelli ; writer, Barbara Christian ; editor, Alberto Eisenhardt ; music, Andre Knecht, Mary Watkins.Edwina Moore, narrator.Summary: Wideman candidly discusses the dilemma of the committed African American intellectual torn between the urban underclass and a predominatly white, middle class literary audience. He writes because "African Americans have to carry alternative versions of reality in our heads and the model for doing that exists in art."
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"Conversations with African American writers"
Subtitle on container: a conversation with John Wideman.
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Director, Matteo Bellinelli ; writer, Barbara Christian ; editor, Alberto Eisenhardt ; music, Andre Knecht, Mary Watkins.
Edwina Moore, narrator.
Wideman candidly discusses the dilemma of the committed African American intellectual torn between the urban underclass and a predominatly white, middle class literary audience. He writes because "African Americans have to carry alternative versions of reality in our heads and the model for doing that exists in art."
VHS.
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