ABSTRACT
Scholars now agree that this novel, The Lonely Crusade, is Himes’s masterwork.1 It is his most daring self revelation; his attempt to infuse the dramatic strategies of fictional narrative with a social and philosophical vision equal to, if not transcending, Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940). Psychologically, The Lonely Crusade is a confessional autobiography; intellectually, a political and social analysis of racial, gender and ethnic relations and ideologically, a personal testament of revolutionary faith.
