/lit/ - Literature

>>10153453
His autobiography. If you can't read your own image, I'm not sure books are for you.

>>10153453
I was forced to read his slave narrative 3 times in one semester due to multiculturalism in the academy. He was in 3 different historical literary survey courses I was taking that semester. Strangely enough, I remember nothing about him other than something about him getting some name equally ridiculous as Olaudah Equiano like Gustavus Vassa, or something like that.

His story was compelling and interesting but like all slave narratives it should be of more historical than literary importance. In other words, he, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and their ilk should be excluded from those Norton anthologies.

>>10153470
my nigga kill thyself

>>10154495
Yer name is Toby!

>>10153470
Why do americans insiste on the "weird name" shit? Do you people seriously not realize different languages produce different names?

>>10155434
>Do you people seriously not realize different languages produce different names?

they legit don't. it's honestly infuriating.

>>10153470

I had to read Douglass' narrative like three fucking times as well.

>>10154495
BREAKING NEWS: yo great-great grandaddy Yakub was found in de pyramids.

>>10155434
They should have fucking white names instead of inferior names like Obongo and Mkebeh. Am I supposed read trash like that from inferiors? I'm proud to be a white nationalist, and I want white values and white authors, not subhuman ones.

>>10155862
lol, this. We WUZ KANGZ. lel what fucking morons

>>10155877
I'm working on a stand-up routine about the dumbassery of being an American and thinking your name is any less weird than any other. Lemme do you, anon; what's your first name?

>>10155961
Frank

>>10155974
See, this is great, because one of the things I like to point out is that Americans name their kids without any fucking idea of what the names mean. Japanese and Chinese, it's right there in the moonrunes. Nigerians just pick a word that sounds good. Bam, your name is Benevolence. Bam, your name is Good Luck. No ambiguity. This guy's going to be president, he's all about luck.

But you have, like, atheists in America naming their kid Adam or Michael. Like... You can Google this shit.

But I like you, Frank. We know what you're about from the get go. You're up-front, a straight-shooter. Maybe a little curvy and salted when you get heated. But people, their mouths water when they hear your name, because they know they're about to get something good. It's right there in their faces. They're about to get Frank.

Which isn't to say your name is, you know, 100% copasetic. I mean, at least it's not a grunt like Dan or Matt, but that nk at the end is a bit strange. You've got a cough at thr end of your name, bud. You probably contribute to the lost singing careers of dozens of your acquaintances over your lifetime, with that maneuver you gotta pull to spit out your name. And are you Frank, or Franklin? Because that's another thing. American names are often so fucked up that we can't be assed to say the whole thing. I could know you for years and not know your full name is fucking Franklin. Or, worse, your parents could have thought, "We're just going to give him the nickname right off the bat," like a bunch of hillbillies, and then for the rest of your life you're stuck correcting people, "Nah, it's just Frank." You're going to win an award someday and the announcer's going to say, "Franklin Whatever," and you're going to black out and wake up the next day in your friend's car hearing about the West Texas Plumber's Association Honors Massacre on the radio or something. They'll make a movie about that shit but change the name to "Carrie" or whatever because "Frank" don't sell tickets.

Thanks a bunch guys, I'm here forever (like everyone else).

>>10156047
this is well written