![]() ![]() ![]() On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, is available in paperback this spring. ![]() In the piece below, excerpted from A New Literary History of America, David Bradley considers the life of The Autobiography as spark of a movement, mainstay of colleges and prisons both, social science, prophecy, and postmodern literature. Many of those stories are best known through Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malclom X, an absolute classic of American letters that now sees itself superseded as historical document by Marable’s work. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention gives us as clear a portrait of the man as we’re ever likely to have, and in the process sifts through many of the stories and myths that Malcolm X told about himself. This week the late Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X was quite rightly awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History. ![]()
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