/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14832267]

Who was/is the greatest African American writer?

My vote goes to pic related.

[Anonymous No.14832272]

>>14832267
Ralph Ellison

[Anonymous No.14832280]

DMX

[Anonymous No.14832290]

It doesnt matter because this thread will get 100+ replies mostly racist and a few genuine. My rant is a cry for help because this is the only board that discusses good literature on the internet so because of that I cannot leave yet my black soul has to live with being called inhuman on that said board

[Anonymous No.14832303]

>>14832267
George Schuyler

[Anonymous No.14832308]

Kendrick Lamar
honestly, I know its dindu raps but To Pimp A Butterfly was a masterpiece, you need to read or listen to it at least once.
>angry replies incoming

[Anonymous No.14832320]

>>14832267
Aimé Césaire, who continued the tradition of trippy poetry from Rimbaud and Baudelaire.

At the end of first light, the morne crouching before bulimia on the outlook for tuns and mills, slowly vomiting out its human fatigue, the
morne solitary and its blood shed, the morne bandaged in shade, the morne and its ditches of fear, the morne and its great hands of wind.

[Anonymous No.14832327]

>>14832290
Sorry anon, I feel for you. Maybe in a few years racism wont be such a contrarian edge-lord LARPing meme. Being racist on 4chan is just the incel equivalent of "i'm not like other girls, I listen to billie eilish and wear chokers"

[Anonymous No.14832330]

>>14832320
Cesaire was from Martinique.

[Anonymous No.14832338]

>>14832330
oops I missed the African American. In that case, Dubois has excellent prose. I second Langston Hughes too, love his poem Mother to Son.

[START WITH THE NIGS No.14832358]

>>14832267
African American literature reading list
>"Ooga Booga, a Snake Bit My Dick!"
>"Where Da White Women At?"
>"The Life and Opinions of Jamal"
>"Chucking Spears: A Step by Step Guide"
>"Black Panther: The Novelization"
>"Crime Statistics and Punishment"
>"Kang Lear"
>"One Hundred Years of Fried Chicken"
>"The Grape Soda of Wrath"
>"A Tale of Two Mudhuts"
>Blood Muhdickian
>A Finna to Arms
>Heart of Darkies
>Da Bruthas Kangazmaov
>Pride and Predjudice (the predjudice part being against NIGGERS that is)
>Annaynay Kareninquanda
>In Search of Lost Crime
>The Scarlet Durag
>Jane AYYO
>Finnegan is Woke
>As I lay Jivin’
>The Great Gatt
>Lolieesha
>Where da Little Wimmin at?
>The Count of MLK Boulevard
>The Incarceration Rate Also Rises
>To the Traphouse
>The Call of my Dealer
>The Wind in The Ghettos
>The Trial (but this time it’s anciry district court and the defendant is BLACK)
>20000 leagues across the Atlantic
>the unbearable aightness of being
>”muhbig dick” or “the jail”

[Anonymous No.14832435]

>>14832267
Ishmael Reed or Ralph Ellison
>>14832320
>the morne bandaged in shade, the morne and its ditches of fear, the morne and its great hands of wind.
That's some good shit actually I'll have to read this nigga.

[Anonymous No.14832440]

>>14832272
Seconded. Hughes is cool too though, and August Wilson is a good few steps ahead of most memes Black American authors.

[Anonymous No.14832517]

>>14832267
pic related

[Anonymous No.14832726]

>>14832280
for me?Its BMX

[Anonymous No.14832741]

>>14832358
Very nice but missing Some
>The Kang in YOLO
>infinite theft
>The Hood trilogy : Negromancer, Caliph Zero, Monaleesha Overdrive
>Ulickdeez
>Steal the tiger
>catch-25-to-life
And as an alternative to “crime statistics and punishment”
“Nuffin and Punishment”

[Anonymous No.14832752]

>>14832267
Honestly, I love Maya Angelou

[Anonymous No.14832764]

I would say Alexandre Dumas but he was french

[Anonymous No.14832983]

>>14832308
I don't think the second half is as good as the first half, barring The Blacker the Berry.

[Anonymous No.14832999]

for me its' Du Bois

[Anonymous No.14833036]

Delillo

[Anonymous No.14833044]

*ahem*

[Anonymous No.14833239]

>>14833044
lol

[Anonymous No.14833254]

>>14832267
hemingway. Why is this even a question

[Anonymous No.14833577]

>>14832267
Richard Wright

[Anonymous No.14833590]

>>14832267
August Wilson is, for my money, the best American playwright after Eugene O'Neill. He's definitely better than Arthur Miller and Tennesee Williams.

[Anonymous No.14833711]

>>14832267
Paul Laurence Dunbar

[Anonymous No.14833736]

>>14832267
James Baldwin is wildly considered to be the best from what I can tell looking into the black community. Dave Chappelle and Obama both really respect him and have quoted him

[Anonymous No.14835053]

bump

[Anonymous No.14835087]

>>14832267

Male Poet:

Aimé Césaire

Female Poet:

Gwendolyn Brooks

Male Novelist:

Ralph Ellison

Female Novelist:

Toni Morrison

Male Non-Fiction:

W.E.B DuBois

Female Non-Fiction:

Audre Lorde

[Anonymous No.14835095]

>>14833736

No, he's not. He was a sharp, beautiful voice but seldom considered the best by scholars, radicals, or artists. We love Baldwin but sometimes it feels like white liberals love him more.

[Anonymous No.14835104]

>>14832267
I know its played out, but i really like MLK's stuff.

[Anonymous No.14836050]

>>14832290
>>14832327
Niggers

[Anonymous No.14836052]

>>14836050
cringer

[Anonymous No.14836349]

>>14832320
Yeah, cahier d'un retour au pays natal is top tier francophone

[Anonymous No.14836465]

>>14833711
I agree.
>>14832308
It’s laughably bad. Serves as a great demonstration of shallowness of hip hop in general. How anyone can take it seriously with that ending is beyond me.

[Anonymous No.14836471]

>>14833577
>>14833577
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[Anonymous No.14836919]

>>14836465
You’re from the east coast, you’ll never get it.

[Anonymous No.14837549]

>>14832290
You're not wrong, but you could still contribute.