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Amazon.com ReviewIn the decades just prior to the eruption of the American civil rights movement in the late '50s, Chester Himes was one of the most significant African American authors--although today he is less well known than several of his contemporaries. He wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and a powerful, searing autobiography, and he did so with an economy of language, a graceful eloquence, and a painful yet unflinching directness. If He Hollers Let Him Go places Himes in the pantheon of 20th-century novelists. It is an intense and muscular story, with an assembly of characters drawn from virtually every social and economic class present in Southern California in the '40s. The novel takes place over four days in the life of Bob Jones, the only black foreman in a shipyard during World War II. Jones lives in a society literally drenched in race consciousness--every conversation in a bar, every personal relationship, every instruction given on a job site, every casual glance on a sidewalk, every interaction of any kind, no matter how trivial, is imbued with a painful and dangerous meaning. A slight mistake, an unwitting rebellion, an unintentional expression of rage or desire can spell disaster for a black man--a beating over a game of craps, or an arrest, or termination from a job, or an accusation of rape. Jones awakes each day in fear, and lives steeped in fear: It came along with consciousness. It came into my head first, somewhere back of my closed eyes, moved slowly underneath my skull to the base of my brain, cold and hollow. It seeped down my spine, into my arms, spread through my groin with an almost sexual torture, settled in my stomach like butterfly wings. For a moment I felt torn all loose inside, shriveled, paralyzed, as if after awhile I'd have to get up and die. For Jones, there is no escape from the constant drumbeat of race and racism. It invades his dreams, his tiniest aspirations, and his deepest passions. Every attempt to retaliate or defend himself leads only to further trouble, loss, or humiliation. He can never forget who he is or what he is prevented from being. At the same time, he comes across as an actor, a subject, a doer, and not as a hapless, helpless victim. For all that he is confronted with, he never stops planning and acting and moving, and in the end, he survives, though his escape is incomplete and bittersweet. The very idea that Jones can escape, however, marks a revolution in American literature. Thwarted at nearly every turn, he is nonetheless a powerful, intelligent, complicated agent of his own destiny. This 1945 novel is a compelling read, and Chester Himes deserves to be remembered for far more than Cotton Comes to Harlem and the raft of hard-bitten detective novels with which he made his living. --Andrew Himes If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel - Chester B. Himes ... ... Devil in a Blue Dress If He Hollers is an austere and concentrated study of black ... If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel Himes Chester Series: Author: Chester ... If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel Summary & Study Guide If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel Summary & Study Guide Description. If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and ... If He Hollers Let Him Go - AbeBooks If He Hollers Let Him Go a Novel by Chester B Himes and a great selection of similar Used New and Collectible Books available now at AbeBooks.com. If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel (Himes Chester ... If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel (Himes Chester) [Chester Himes Hilton Als] ... If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel by Chester Himes ... If He Hollers Let Him Go is a masterpiece for its bitter and ... which he used as the basis for his most famous novel If He Hollers Let Him Go. He eventually ... If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel - Walmart.com If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel. Average rating: ... Devil in a Blue Dress If He Hollers is an austere and concentrated study of black experience ... If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes Reviews ... If He Hollers Let Him Go has 1362 ratings and 121 reviews. ... the writing style in If He Hollers is distinctly hard ... If He Hollers Let Him Go A novel by Chester ... If He Hollers Let Him Go - Wikipedia If He Hollers Let Him Go. If He Hollers Let Him Go; First edition. Author: Chester Himes: Country: United ... If He Hollers Let Him Go is a novel by Chester Himes ...
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