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Zora Neale Hurston in rare underground spanking film, 1931.

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Song of Solomon: A Novel (Vintage International) Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition “It was becoming a habit—this concentration on things behind him” Sale: $17 to $1.99 by Toni Morrison Rating: 4.6/5 (5,724 Reviews) #LiteraryFiction #BlackLiterature #ComingOfAge #ToniMorrison #Books #BookSky

Song of Solomon: A Novel (Vint...

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Jane Austen’s real and literar...

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 -

Morrison's tangled examination of violence, misogyny, race purity, and myth-building is at once hyperlocal and expansively human, revealing at our hearts a terrifying mass of uncertainties.

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#NowReReading2024 ERASURE by Percival Everett via Faber & Faber imbibed at Mills Coffee #Senju #千住 #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #BlackLiterature
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗨 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 -

A call to action, a current and savvy microcosm of police violence and race, a tightly written story that risks not outlasting the problem it addresses.

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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗨 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 -

As much call to action as fiction work, Thomas' book, a current and savvy microcosm of police violence and race, risks only not outlasting the problem it addresses.

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#NowReReading2024 CROOK MANIFESTO by Colson Whitehead via @doubledaybooks imbibed at Miyakoshiya Coffee #Ginza #銀座 #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #BlackLiterature
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#NowReading2024 YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN by Alice Walker via The Women's Fiction Press (1985) imbibed at Costa Coffee #Otemachi #大手町 💙📚 #WomensLiterature #BlackLiterature #ShortStories

#NowReReading2024 PARADISE by Toni Morrison via Vintage Books imbibed at Moshi Moshi Coffee #Books #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #Novels #BlackLiterature

#NowReading2024 TO MAKE NEGRO LITERATURE: WRITING, LITERARY PRACTICE, & AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORSHIP by Elizabeth McHenry via @dukepress brewed with Philz Coffee Philtered Soul Blend
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#NowReading2024 A SMALL PLACE by Jamaica Kincaid via Farrar, Straus & Giroux imbibed at Yanaka Coffee #Sendagi #千駄木
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And so it begins - #NowReading2024
PASSING by Nella Larsen (1929) via Oshun Publishing imbibed at Yanaka Coffee #Nishiarai #西新井
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"It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself."
—Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man (1952).
https://archive.org/details/invisibleman00elli/page/14/mode/1up?q=%22It+took+me+a+long+time%22&view=theater. #BlackLiterature #quotes #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan

Notes on Mermaids and Passing As Human

 
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
— Alexander Pope, “Essay on Man, Epistle II”
 

There’s much to say about the allegorical poten

http://lunastationquarterly.com/notes-on-mermaids-and-passing-as-human/

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