MemeWars

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MemeWars is written by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1609644166 (ISBN 10) and 9781609644161 (ISBN 13).

Aldon Lynn Nielsen was born and spent his childhood in Grand Island, Nebraska, the place where The West begins, its outskirts the forward edge of The Big Empty. This extended series of written interviews with E. Ethelbert Miller begins with a vivid recollection of that space, tumbleweeds and all, then moves on to Nielsen’s formative years in Washington, DC. Miller’s questions lead to considerations of Nielsen’s development as a poet, musician and scholar. As you would expect, these reflections treat his engagement with African-American literature from the Black Arts Movement to the growth of university departments of Black Studies and his role as an anthologist and critic in offering us both the texts of innovative Black writing and critical ways to approach it. The detail here is engaging and important, but this is most fascinating and instructive as the account of the evolution of a sensibility and how it moved from “empty” to open and inclusive.