Enriching the paper trail: an interview with Tom Dent. (Black South Fiction, Art, Culture) (Interview)

From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 1993| Author: Salaam, Kalamu ya | Copyright information

Tom Dent believes that his New York experience with the Umbra-Lower East Side artists getting together helped him develop and contribute to the Free Southern Theater. The BLKARTSOUTH and the Southern Black Cultural Alliance grew from this. The Southern Black focus of BLKARTSOUTH's journal Nkombo reflects Dent's preoccupation with exploring and establishing the unique experiences of blacks in the South. His primary aim in returning to New Orleans from New York was the hope of providing a creat...

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