/lit/ - Literature

>>18299227
She was a marxist so I doubt it.

I like reading books by dead people.

Maybe I pick up one of her's soon.

>>18299227
She is /lit/core. Not everyone here is a racist.

>>18299248
>She is /lit/core.
She isn't. Her books are not memed here nor are they chosen for the top 100.

>>18299227
Probably
People still wouldn't talk about her though
There are a bunch of white authors who /lit/ doesn't talk about despite them being /lit/ core

>>18299227
Cringe.

>>18299227
How is her trilogy?

I heard it was inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy.

Cringe. She should have appropriated her own culture instead.

>>18299227
>if she was white
She's half white, anon, so...

>>18299230
hemingway was marxist adjacent and he’s /lit/core. orwell too. camus, kafka, joyce, steinbeck, vonnegut, sartre, dfw, dickens, tolstoy. all varying degrees of leftist. some marxist, some adjacent, all progressive.

>>18299580
Out of those, only Joyce and DFW are /lit/core.

>>18299230
>nigbeast marxist
disgusting, kill it with fire

>>18299589
bad opinion. you have an incorrect and bad opinion

>>18299616
/lit/ doesn't really care about the others enough to be /lit/core. it is what it is.

>>18299627
>/lit/ doesn't talk about Tolstoy, Camus, Kafka
Lurk more.

>>18299688
>>18299580
>/lit/ cares about orwell, steinbeck, vonnegut
/lit/ isn't reddit

>>18299553
What would that be?

>>18299741

A lot of people criticized Catholic church for its attempts to become more popular in the modern sense of the world. Although, you need to have some knowledge to understand why the concerns about language are not a bike shed color arguments.

>>18299756
Seems odd, I doubt she’s affiliated with that tribe.

>>18299251
Many of the books from top 100 are bloated like Americans

>>18299762
What about this one?

>>18299227
>“I had a moment of crisis on the occasion of Vatican II,” she said. “At the time I had the impression that it was a superficial change, and I suffered greatly from the abolition of Latin, which I saw as the unifying and universal language of the Church.”
based and trad pilled. An artist cannot deny these facts about the reforms. Tolkien had a similar take

>>18299227
I think her problem here is that her better stuff is the more conventional work like The Bluest Eye/Song of Solomon and the last couple of books where she's pretty much black Faulkner are worthy but sort of boring. There is no hardmode culmination of reading Morrison, you go directly to the best few books and they're all okay. She also didn't really move literature forward or represent any new position, she's just very capable in the modernist idiom.

If she were white she'd be DeLillo tier, with occasional threads from American anons saying, hey, I just read Jazz, and what the fuck was that?

>>18299768
Toni Morrison is the definition of a bloated American writer.

>>18299227
>Morrison did not identify her works as feminist.
>She went on to state that she thought it "off-putting to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things."[107]
That's kind of based. However:
>"People keep saying, 'We need to have a conversation about race.' This is the conversation. I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back. And I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman. Then when you ask me, 'Is it over?', I will say yes."[104]
So after Daniel Shaver it's over? Of course not.
Not to mention she's a fan of the Clintons.
Definitely not /lit/core.

Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou both deserve to be celebrated. Despite both of them being perhaps excessively celebrated by a certain class of people that I detest, I think ultimately both of them are great artists worthy of recognition.

>>18299820
>Maya Angelou
the cringiest of poets, come on.

Why do all negroes peak intellectually at about the sixth grade level?
This is the kind of shit I’d say as a child to get people to pay attention to me, am I supposed to be impressed an adult said this?

>>18299803
>I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back. And I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman. Then when you ask me, 'Is it over?', I will say yes.
God niggers are so deranged. What a fucking idiot. Zachary Hammond is another unarmed white teen gunned by cops. A quick google search was apparently beyond the means of this retarded nigbeast named Toni Morrison. Not to mention, whites are less inclined to rape because temperament has a genetic factor, but the retarded marxist nigbeast thinks these things happen at fixed rates. And this thing is a published author. Disgusting.

>>18299589
Maybe if it's your first week here.

>>18299859
>orwell and vonnegut are /lit/core
maybe if you're a redditor

>>18299796
You mean pynchon, dfw and the likes.

>>18299864
Sorry. I was saying that none of the writers listed are /lit/core, including Joyce and DFW.

>>18299875
>what is the meme trilogy
have you seen /lit/'s top 100? Joyce and DFW are always in the top 20 at least. and top 10 even some times.

>>18299884
>have you seen /lit/'s top 100?
That's a meme.

Have you read Beloved? That shit sucks

>>18299705
yes it is
t. crossboard poster

>>18299866
No, those guys are underrated. Morrison is overrated.
>>18299892
/lit/core is a meme as well and Joyce and DFW are part of it.

>>18299897
Recently it IS kind of Reddit. I mean, this is a unironic Toni Morrison thread...

>>18299227

>>18299906
What are you on about? Pynchon and dfw underrated? People jack off, sayin' yeaaah i read Gravitys Rainbow, sooo verbose and pomo,.duuude

>>18299906
If something is named specifically /lit/core, sure, I would agree that it's an expression of the meme; but we can also survey the board to see who its accepted authors and works are. We could even call that collection "/lit/core." /lit/ has interests, but Joyce, DFW, et al. are not among them.

>>18299906
>Morrison is overrated.
No one fucking reads Morrison.

>>18299227
The reason I won’t read Toni Morrison is not that I won’t read black people’s books. The reason is that I won’t read women.

ITT: Newfriends trying to pretend that Morrison isn't good because their epic friends on /pol/ and r/conservative don't like black people

>>18300030
Your pic rel is the kind of guy who reads Morrison.

>>18300030
KYS
I didn't even know she was black when I first read her and I still hated her, because stylistically the books are just fucking awful.
I am only ironically racist.

>>18299960
I had to read a collection of her essays in high school

Yes, I'm tired of black people. I don't care who they are or what they think.

>>18299705
Steinbeck's pretty famous over here.

>>18299796
Gass is fatter

>>18299580
almost none of those are /lit/core

>>18300345
he's not, he gets a thread once a month if at all, and is only mentioned in threads he might have some relation

>>18299227
>Toni Morrison would 100% be /lit/core if she were white
no, because then she would also have to not be a woman

>>18299820
Morrison is good. Angelou is trash.

>>18299958
>/lit/ has interests, but Joyce, DFW, et al. are not among them.
I guess I took a wrong turn and ended up on bizarro-/lit/ again

>>18300345
not really

>>18299235
>her's
kek

>>18300420
>>18299589
great! then to not be /lit/core is a high honor and OP is doubly right

>>18300030
Weak bait

>>18302833
Morrison is worse than all those writers, so not really.

The Bluest Eye and Song Of Solomon are both very good