Download or read book Connecting Times written by Norman Harris and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris focuses on how Afro-Americans involved in the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and the Vietnam War either achieved major objectives or failed to make their lives purposeful. He demonstrates how one or more of these major historical events determined the plot and characterization of seven novels by John Williams, George Davis, Wesley Brown, Alice Walker, John McCluskey, John Killens, and Ishmael Reed. Harris analyzes the vital connections between political awareness and literary consciousness during the 1960s, and explores the quest myth that permeates Afro-American culture. ISBN 0-87805-335-2: $27.50.