/lit/ - Literature

my diary tbh

>>7139034
yes

Alexandre Dumas tbh

>>7139034
Not sure about Finnegans Wake, but surely Ulysses qualifies

>>7139034

go tell it on the mountain is amazing

avoid if you're a /pol/ack though it'll trigger you

>>7139057

Not from /pol/. Not even white. I just can't think of any critically acclaimed books by black writers

>>7139068
>legitimate question
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Also some other writer who however is shit.
Doubt you'll find any outside of the US.

>>7139047
not fully black

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

>>7139068
Aside from others mentioned here, off the top of my head you also have Zadie Smith, Ben Okri and Samuel Delaney. Never read them but pretty sure they count as critically acclaimed.

Samuel Delany is black, which I only learned last week and surprised me quite a bit

>>7139082
Race is a social construct anyway.

>>7139034
Harlem Renaissance

The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

>>7139140
ever seen an albino black person?

>>7139034
DEFINE "BLACK".

>>7139140
So are the different categories of the animal kingdom (mammals, reptiles, birds, etc.)

Something being a social construct doesn't mean that it has no basis in (biological) reality.

>>7139140

>>7139191
Personally I'd assume that post was a half-witted false flag op.

Things Fall Apart is pretty bassed.

>>7139140
Race is not a social construct; on the contrary, it is the result of a set of phenotypic alleles that are different for all races.

Invisible Man should be read by any man even if you can't relate to the black aspects the alienation and sense of being used should hit home with anyone really. The allusion to the Underground Man with the passage about dentistry was sublime and whether this was intentional or not I do not know.

>>7139034
Im sorry bro.

I guess the next step... You could look into hispanic writers? I don't know

>>7139225

I thought it was supremely mediocre.

>Beat wife
>Be dumb
>Beat wife
>Be dumb
>Beat wife
>Lame father-son issues

>>7139082

There are no pure blooded American blacks, for example. You'd have to go to darkest africa to find one.

>>7139049

I love this meme

>>7139238

This. Invisible Man stacks up to pretty much any other modernist novel. It's also growing more prescient in its critique of identity politics as they expand. (You are "invisible" inside ideologies.)

>>7139034
The Three Musketeers is worth reading, in my opinion.

The great black writers I know wrote in French: give a read to Césaire's and Senghor's poetry. As for novers, try ''The Oldest Orphan'' by Tierno Monénembo and ''The Suns of Independence'' by Kourouma.

>>7139034
camus m8

>>7139034
Dambudzo Marechera.

monte cristo

black is a cultural thing and I would say Pynchon is culturally black

Giovanni's Room and everything else by James Baldwin you consummate plebs

Alexander Dumas you srs my nigga?
Got u fucked up on some musketeers and count of monte cristo

>>7139034
Kill yourself you dumb fuck

>>7139252
you sound pretty stupid

>>7139113
>>7139225
DUDE YAMS LMAO
No Longer at Ease is better

>>7139160
Seconded.

>>7139247
>maybe

A Hispanic author produced Don Quixote, so surely you mean "definitely".

not really tbh (to be honest)

the best black authors are somewhere around the level of a mid-low tier author, and that's the best of the best. most "good" black writers are absolutely garbage tier.

>>7139034
Dumas would have been considered legally black back during segregation, and The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the best novels ever written.

>>7139068
>I just can't think of any critically acclaimed books by black writers

Does Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize and Pulitzer mean nothing?

>>7139680

>you're the nigger, baby, not I

based baldwin

>>7139140
this tbh

>>7139140
>>7139191
>>7139206
>>7139231

This is true though. The racial and ethnic groups that people commonly think about do not exist in any discrete objective sense because they are only the most recent combination of genes in a given area resulting from an endless cycle of migration, sublimation, genocide, assimilation, intermarriage, etc. European colonialism, which formulated and originated many of humanity's modern conceptions when it comes to 'race' is really just the most recent example of cultural blending, and was the largest in scale because the technology that happened to exist at the time allowed it to be the largest in scale. The only reason it's still seen as relevant today is because of the modern cultural and social impacts it is still having.

>>7139034

>>7139732
what is the yams

>>7140630
the yam is the power that be

>>7139034
If you define "black" using the "one drop" segregation rule, then anything by weitten by Pushkin counts. Also Césaire and Senghor wrote nice stuff as someone said above.

>>7140574
Seconding. This is no-shit one of the most interesting books written in the last century, especially if you're American.

>>7139564
pretty sure camus is white

>>7140664
the yams brought it out of Richard Pryor

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison