![]() ![]() dem is angrier, more ironic and hyperbolic than the works that preceded it. In dem, Kelley enlarges his realism, injecting the novel with heavy doses of distortion. By 1967 though, Kelley moved to a more radical style in his satire dem. Kelley’s follow up, A Drop of Patience (1965), follows a similar naturalistic approach. ![]() The novel is naturalistic and ultimately optimistic. ![]() In A Different Drummer, Kelley offered the lucid yet Faulknerian tale of Caliban Tucker, a black Southerner who leads his people to freedom. Formally and conceptually challenging, Dunfords contrasts strongly with the mannered modernism of Kelley’s first (and arguably most popular) novel A Different Drummer(1962). William Melvin Kelley’s final novel Dunfords Travels Everywhere was published in 1970 to mixed reviews and then languished out of print for half a century. ![]()
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