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Is there a literature produced by a black person worth reading?

>> No.13847971

>>13847964
Kebra Nagast
The Epic of Sundiata
Utendi wa Tambuka
Emperor Shaka the Great
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Native Son
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Invisible Man
Giovanni's Room
Beloved
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Underground Railroad

>> No.13847978

Start with the Greeks

>> No.13847979

The Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison was influenced by Melville

>> No.13847980

>>13847964
If you have to ask.

>> No.13848019

>>13847980
Is there a literature produced by a white person worth reading?

>> No.13848034

>>13847964
NO!

>> No.13848038

Langston Hughes

>> No.13848084

>>13847964

Arabian Nights is on par with Homer.

>> No.13848092
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13848092

Literally the only thing worth reading. Everything else is nigger apologetics

>> No.13848102

>>13848092
What about Alexandre Dumas?

>> No.13848109

>>13848092
Who dis

>> No.13848115

>>13847971
>Invisible Man
Discredits your whole post

>> No.13848154

>>13847964
yes, many people of color have produced many great works of literature, as well as many written languages and wheels.

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>>13848102
>black

>> No.13848184

>>13848109
Douglass
Very anti nigger, pro literature, very fucking based

>> No.13848254

>>13848180
still whiter than dosto, tolstoy, pushkin, etc.

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>>13848102
He was only a quadroon, his father was distinctly black but in Dumas it wasn’t that obvious, his hair looks kinda like Afro caribbean hair, his lips were thick I guess and his nose was kinda wide, maybe irl he was swarthy enough to tell but it’s hard to tell from black and white like pic related
>>13848180
That’s his son retard, he was an octoroon and at that point you definitely can’t tell

>> No.13848318

>>13847964
Is there literature produced by a white in black-face?

And look at that picture. They make it look like it’s from the early 60s. Fuckers.

>> No.13848432

>>13848307
if it were a color photo, you would be able to tell with both of them.

>> No.13848499

>>13848092
>Derek Walcott’s poetry is nigger apologetics
Read more. Also, Patrick Chamoiseau.

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>>13847964
Does /lit/ consider Irish white?

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>>13848508
White and splotchy red :)

>> No.13848525

>>13847964
The Bible.

>> No.13848529

>>13848508
Since the Irish are white, and since everyone considers them white, yeah, /lit/ probably considers the Irish white

>> No.13848535

>>13848512
:3

>> No.13848551

>>13848529
Skin wise they look white but the drunk, violent, loud, broke, shiftless retardedness should disqualify them.
(Same with Slavs.)

>> No.13848565

>>13848551
They offset the boring unromantic robotic Germans and Scandinavians. Irish are essential

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>>13848565
irish: naruto
germans: sasuke
french: rock lee

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>>13847964
DELET THIS !

>> No.13848607

>>13848307
he literally looks like my jew friend's dad. far from black, though.

>> No.13848615

>>13848307
his lips are not nigger-thick, nor is his nose nigger-wide. only his hair is a bit tellig.

>> No.13848619

>>13848551
Italians and Spanish are the horndogs, Slavs are the scoundrels, French are aesthetes, Germans are the collectivists, Celts are the youthful spirit

>> No.13848624

>>13848551
Imagine being this afraid of the Irish....

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>>13848607
>my jew friend

>> No.13849371

>>13848508
I like them, so no.

>> No.13849391

>>13847964
Leviticus

>> No.13850006
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13850006

Black literature =(for the most part) CIAapproved literature.
Look it up.

>> No.13850015

>>13848565
>unromantic robotic Germans
>when they literally gave birth to romanticism

>> No.13850029

>>13850015
Must have died during labour.