/lit/ - Literature

>>9949382
Brief History of Seven Killings (and everything else james has written)
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Fishermen
Song of Solomon
The Sellout
The Wretched of the Earth
Native Son
Thiongo has like 5 good books
The Black Jacobins (god tier)


This is just a brief scrolldown of my calibre screen. These are cringey threads because so many people are so fucking uninformed, that they think most "black" books are the ghostwritten sob stories by assholes like zadie smith.

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>>9497068
Is this the shit Marlon James is basing his new novel on?

>>9105591
While I do not belong to a militia, I unironically enjoy post-colonial stories of suffering from varied locales.

South America wins, but desu I am waiting for a generation of mildly assimilated male refugees to write either veiled fictional or memoir accounts of the syrian-isis conflict.