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Journal Article
Introduction—: African American Writers Respond to Poe
2023
Overview
From the antebellum period to the present, Black authors in the United States have explicitly referred to, noted the influence of, and responded directly or indirectly to Poe and his writings, thereby being \"particularly active in keeping Poe alive. Recognized as the first African American detective and mystery story, Pauline Hopkins's \"Talma Gordon\" (1900), featuring a locked-room murder mystery and a rapacious ship captain who kills his men to keep the location of pirate treasure to himself, signifies on \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Gold-Bug. \"16 This statement at once links the experience of being Black in the United States to gothic fiction and pointedly distinguishes between them. [...]critics have written about the relationship between Richard Wright and Poe since the early 1970s, discussing the latter's influence on the former's early story \"Superstition\" (1930) and Wright's explicit mention of Poe in \"How Bigger Was Born,\" included in Native Son (1940).17 Near the end of his life, James Baldwin referred to the Poe-Wright connection in his comments on the abductions and killings of at least thirty Black males in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981: \"Richard Wright once wrote that if Edgar Allan Poe had been born in 20th Century America, he would not have had to invent horror; horror would have invented him. In addition to being mentioned in Gil-Scott Heron's The Vulture (1970), he factors in four of Ishmael Reed's books published between 1967 and 1976, namely The Free-Lance Pallbearers, Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, and Flight to Canada.23 In the last of these, about a protagonist named Raven Quickskill, Reed asks, \"Why isn't Edgar Allan Poe recognized as the principal biographer of [the Civil War]?
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Johns Hopkins University Press
