"A Solo Song: For Doc" is a short story written by James
Alan McPherson who won a 1980 href="http://www.iowalum.com/pulitzerprize/mcpherson.html">Pulitzer Prize
for his short story collection Elbow Room, his second collection of
short stories, and who has been a Professor of English at the University of California
at Santa Cruz and the University of Iowa, from which he received his M.F.A. degree. "A
Solo Song: For Doc" is a story about the oral stories that a young waiter hears from an
old waiter about Doc Craft.
It is a highly representative
story that symbolizes the important contributions to his story-telling craft that
McPherson has gained from the older generations of African American oral story tellers.
McPherson, who has regularly written for The Atlantic periodical,
once said that those "who are black" and who have been forced to "defend [their]
humanity" must continue to defend their humanity on higher and "higher levels of
consciousness." As a realization of this, he incorporates oral tradition within his
written stories as a defense of the humanity of previous black storytellers as well as
the humanity of present black storytellers. A link to the short story " href="http://books.google.com/books?id=E79awtsD3tYC&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq=A+solo+song:+for+Doc&source=bl&ots=TxuAyBLEbC&sig=ocACwFMizrkjMx6C4BmidiAtKlA&hl=en&ei=kY5tTJGjFIWClAe_6qDJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=A%20solo%20song%3A%20for%20Doc&f=false">A
Solo Song: For Doc" is available through
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