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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 2:52 am    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

Bluntman wrote:
Senor Misterioso wrote:
The only black fiction author that I know of that I've ever read is Christopher Priest.

'Course for all I know I prolly have read other things by black authors in the past and just didn't know that the writer was black.


it's easy to tell, it's usually signed with an X.


ouch!
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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 6:01 am    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Adultery, floods and rabies!

It's a bit of a chick story but nowhere near as annoying as Toni Morrison. The author's real life is more interesting as she did a lot of anthropological research into Louisiana hoodoo back in the 30's. Cool lady with balls of steel.
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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 7:07 am    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

Shwicaz wrote:
neophyte wrote:
Shwicaz wrote:
Noone has mentioned Richard Wright author of 'Native Son' and 'Black Boy'. You guys are slipping. Wink


Scroll up three posts, Shwicy... Razz


Whoops. Embarassed


yeah as an English teacher I'd be remiss if I hadn't mentioned Wright.
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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 7:44 am    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

Zadie Smith, people. her first novel, WHITE TEETH, was incredible. She somehow managed to juggle a big Dickensian story with a multi-ethnic cast over a span of several decades and keep it both riveting and screamingly, laugh-out-loud funny.

Z.Z. Packer's short stories are masterful.

Give Nalo Hopkinson a read, too. She's one of the freshest voices in sf and a hell of a storyteller.

And I agree with the other suggestions- Walter Mosley in particular. I'd kill for a chance to tell a Socrates Fortlow story in comics.
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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 7:58 am    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

Ellison's Invisible Man is a fantastic read, especially when the protagonist gives the university person a ride and the whole of the book once he ends up in Harlem (I think, it's been a while).
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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 8:36 am    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

All good suggestions, and the Invisible Man is in some University literature classes.

I read The Blues Eye by Toni Morrison and really enjoyed it. It was my girlfriend's and I read it on the plane.
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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 8:39 am    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

it was probably because the class i was in got forced to read The Awakening, Invisible man, and...one other book that slipped my mind all in a row. but i really didnt enjoy invisible man at all.

-joe!
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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 2:58 pm    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

I'll second Zadie Smith. To move to an African writer, you might try Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' or 'Arrow Of God'.

If you want some genre fiction, try anything by Gary Phillips, particularly 'The Perpetrators,' which has spot illustrations by Paul Pope. Aside from his novels, he's also done two mini-series for Oni.

Comics-wise, have you tried Ho Che Anderson's 'King' books?
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PostPosted: Jul 16, 2004 4:51 pm    Post subject: Re: the only black fiction author that i have ever read is . Reply with quote

Octavia Butler.

Black, female, sci-fi. Which in a field dominated by middle age/older white guys is pretty unusual.

Her work tends to focus on the concepts of gender and race identity. She is one of my absolute favorite writers.
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