Which black authors have you read and which ones do you find worth reading?

Dumas, Pushkin

>>24522473
eh, not black, more like mixed.

>>24522488
If Obama and Kamala can be black anything is possible

It's funny how this book is kind of patient zero for the "postcolonialist literature" meme, but if you actually read it it's a far more complex and better story than that. Achebe comes across as less of a judge of the impact of colonialism, and more of a simple chronicler. The teller of a story, not a moral arbiter.

>>24522501
what's that supposed to mean?

Lee Stringer. Met him once. He was simply a nice guy and not an academic asshole. Grand Central Winter is worth reading if you're interested in NYC or homelessness.

I remember being impressed by James Baldwin, but I have no idea what it was I read. Something for school. His arguments and writing style were very convincing.

>>24522511
You'll figure it out. It's not that complicated

>>24522522
it doesn't make sense because pushkin wasn't black like obama (a mulatto)

>>24522529
Dumas was

>>24522464 (OP)
Why doesn't the propaganda ever push you to read Ralph Ellison? They're always telling you how great James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, or Maya Angelou is, but never Ellison.

>>24522530
also had less black in him than obama. if obama is barely black like you say, then these guys surely aren't even black.

>>24522533
Because he calls out anglo liberals for being weird fetishists and other things

>>24522540
My nigger just use jewgle. Dumas literally had a black father

>>24522530
Dumas was a quadroon

>>24522464 (OP)
Shakespeare

>>24522546
His father was black. Both his grandparents on the side of his father were black

>>24522545
his father was a mulatto, so dumas was 3/4 french, that is, 75% european.

>>24522548
Dumas' father was a mulatto. The son of a french man and a slave african woman.

>>24522568
>>24522571
Nevermind you're right Jewgle failed me on that one

>>24522547
so true!

>>24522587
It’s true that he can’t write his own name. The missing context is that nobody else could either. They just didn’t care that much about spelling and would sound words out.
It seems like printers did the lion’s share of standardization.

>>24522464 (OP)
Homer
Dante
Cervantes

>>24522473
Pushkin didn't identify as black. He identified as an ethnic Russian who happened to have some black ancestry. The only reason you would claim he is black is to score point on internet racists who say that only whites can produce art.

>>24522587
uhhhhhh...................Shakespeare bros I'm not feeling so good

>>24522732
He was a mixed guy, though, which means mixed people can produce good art (this should be obvious to anyone but apparently isn't these days). What he identified as doesn't changed his genetics. Even Nabokov used him as an example of that precisely.

>>24522732
>The only reason you would claim he is black is to score point on internet racists who say that only whites can produce art
Please do not attempt to psychoanalyze anyone if you're autistic

>>24522737
Lies! She was a BLACK queen. "Shakespeare" was a bum who stole her masterpieces. Fact!

>>24522464 (OP)
>no du Bois mentioned
For shame.

>>24522756
>"Touche du bois!"
>Kid named du Bois

I read Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston and was quite impressed. But in hindsight, I really don't know how much of the facts to actually trust since a lot of what she says is truly outlandish and she was a bit of a fibber. But just to read it's astounding.

Today, I finished When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head. Not earth shattering, but a good read.

Derek Walcott's "The Spoiler's Return" impressed the Hell out of me when I first read it, but I confess I haven't gotten to any of his other works.

>>24522464 (OP)
Homer, who was not a group of people but an individual, was black. This came to me in a dream in September 7th 2022.

Charles Dickens

>>24522533
Perhaps because his novel wasn't really overtly political, and he also criticizes the Communist Party