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Who are some good black authors who don't talk about
>muh racism

>> No.8422128

>good
>black
>authors
pick two

>> No.8422136

Alexandre Dumas

>> No.8422146

>>8422128
Good and black

>> No.8422155

>>8422124
Samuel Delaney and Derek Walcott come to mind. Both of their masterpieces, Dhalgren and Omeros, are derivative of The Odyssey, similar to Ulysses but in different veins. Ulysses being modern-lit, Dhalgren being sci-fi, and Omeros being an epic poem

>> No.8422162

What are some good 4chan /lit/ threads who don't talk about
>muh white privilege

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INFINITE JEST speaks for all black literature.

>> No.8422173

>>8422155
Omeros is all whiny das racis shit though

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>>8422162
basically all of them, my nu-male friend

>> No.8422198

>>8422173
I guess if you consider a passage about the "Achilles" character on a slave ship from Africa to America to be "das racis" then sure but that certainly isn't truthful of the whole

>> No.8422228

>>8422124
Cardinal Sarah

>> No.8422239
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8422239

Ralph Ellison. Now get out.

>> No.8422247

Amos Tutuola

>> No.8422261 [DELETED] 

>>8422239
Keep on shitposting butterfly.

>> No.8422268

>>8422239

Very, very subtle COINTELPRO.

>> No.8422271
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>>8422228
this T B H
thank you based Sarah

>> No.8422282

>>8422271
Hope this Francis shit will end soon and we'll get a pope who isn't all about autonomy for only German heretics.

>> No.8422285

>>8422271
>that noose around his neck

he's doing the right thing

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>>8422261
Why, you don't like the helpful posts in the troll-meme threads? Or are you asking me to firebomb this thread?

>> No.8422295

Any of you guys read Ishmael Reed? Don't see him on lit much, but read a few books by him in philosophy courses

>> No.8422302 [DELETED] 

>>8422288
not asking u to do anything lol, just think youre fucking useless

>> No.8422345

>>8422295

Never heard of him until just now, going to check him out.

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>>8422302
Some would say the same of /lit/

>> No.8422812

pushkin, obviously

>> No.8422850

>>8422146
Dead black

>> No.8424060

>>8422124
why do you want black authors? are you assuming something about their experiences and ideas based on their skin color? you sound pretty racist OP

>> No.8425401

>>8422124
Alice norton is enjoyable.

>> No.8425404

>>8422128
Harsh but true

>> No.8425539

Shakespeare

>> No.8425711

>>8422239
I gotta read this in full. Read part of it for a weird english class last year, was pretty beautiful and interesting to me.

>> No.8425715

Olaudah Equiano

>> No.8425722

Thomas Sowell

>> No.8426226

Amos Tutuola

>> No.8426228

>>8425711
The prologue is God-tier, I've read it like four times but never got into the book itself

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>>8422146