/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8760744]

Is there any Black Literature that is worth my time?

[Anonymous No.8760757]

>>8760744
What's 'black literature'?

Are there works by black authors that would be worth you time? Certainly.

[Anonymous No.8760794]

Bluford high

[Anonymous No.8760812]

Things Fall Apart

Thats literally it. All the rest is dindunuffin crap

[Anonymous No.8760817]

a brief history of seven killings

[Anonymous No.8760835]

>>8760744
Why? Who's asking?

[Anonymous No.8760839]

>>8760835
Someone who wants to talk race on /lit/

[Anonymous No.8760855]

>>8760812
Read half of it. It's not that good. It's only famous because a Nigerian wrote it

[Anonymous No.8760857]

>>8760757
That's not what I asked. Are there any black writers good enough to negate the opportunity cost of giving up reading a classical white?

[Anonymous No.8760864]

>>8760857
Yes. Invisible Man by Ellison is a genuine masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.8760868]

>>8760857
>opportunity cost
what could be more valuable than fapping to hentai and lurking /pol/

[Anonymous No.8760876]

>>8760864
>It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.

Really not interested in whining about race for hundreds of pages. Are there any good black books that aren't about mug oppression?

[Anonymous No.8760908]

>>8760876
So really what you want is a black writer who writes about white people.

[Anonymous No.8760913]

Thank you, based cardinal!

[Anonymous No.8760916]

There's this. He was a quarter black or something like that.

[Anonymous No.8760917]

Iceberg Slim - Pimp

[Anonymous No.8760918]

>>8760908
How many white writers talk about white oppression and shieet? The number is 0, seems to me that all black literature revolves around being black.

[Anonymous No.8760919]

>>8760744
Beloved is a well written novel you should check out. Toni Morrison is the shit.

[Anonymous No.8760928]

>>8760744
Song of Solomon is one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.8760937]

>>8760918
You can't write about a black character in America without writing about black oppression.

[Anonymous No.8760940]

>>8760937
A white man could

[Anonymous No.8761011]

>>8760919
Beloved is one of my favorite books.

Native Son by Richard Wright is also fucking solid, OP.

[Anonymous No.8761021]

>>8760744
Not really unless you are suffering from white guilt or are black yourself. Their works are always inferior and many are highly promoted in the liberal schools as terrific works when they are anything but terrific.

[Anonymous No.8761026]

>>8760876

Invisible Man is essential anon literature. If you don't identify with the man in his hole you are probably some normie scum

[Anonymous No.8761032]

>>8761026
>identify with the man in his hole

gay desu

[Anonymous No.8761045]

>>8760744
Not in literature, but funny enough, there's one BIG exception in economics.

Read Sowell, fgt.

[Anonymous No.8761052]

>>8761045
>There are no worthwhile works written by black authors in literature

What a remarkably ignorant thing to say. There are plenty of good suggestions in this thread.

[Anonymous No.8761078]

>>8761052
There are plenty (more like, a handful) of suggestions in this thread, not one of them being anywhere near "good".

And no, Steinbeck wasn't good either regardless of his race. Propaganda is for pamphlets and be it Ellison or Delany or whoever else black you want, the distinctive aspect of black "literature" is that it's always politically supercharged in a partisan way, which cheapens it.

[Anonymous No.8761094]

>>8761078
>Sowell's works aren't politically supercharged

really makes u tink

[Anonymous No.8761102]

Letter From Birmingham Jail is pretty amazing

[Anonymous No.8761107]

>>8761102
No, it's shit compared to white literature

[Anonymous No.8761115]

>>8761107
Ok /pol/

[Anonymous No.8761117]

>>8761094
>Not in LITERATURE, but funny enough, there's one big exception in ECONOMICS.
Of course being politically supercharged is an unavoidable fact of economics. The left-right divide is entirely based on economic positions.

It cheapens literature though. That's why the Nobel is a joke.

Take latin american magical realism as an example. Let's go with laureates, even. Both Garcia Marquez and Asturias are at their best when they're apolitical. When they're working on that prose, when they're exploring and exploiting that language instead of that dictatorship that, after the 15th time, makes you roll your eyes.

[Anonymous No.8761126]

>>8761117
>politics and aesthetics don't go hand-in-hand

pure ideology

[Anonymous No.8761145]

>>8760744
Are you really complaining about black American writers writing about oppression

[Anonymous No.8761178]

>>8760937
>You can't write about a black character in America without writing about black oppression.

lol, this is what liberals actually believe.

So in essence what you're saying is that black people are genetically incapable of writing science fiction, erotica, crime novels, historical fiction, genre, religious fiction, theatre plays, or in general any other subject than the history of their ethnicity.

Talk about idiocy.

[Anonymous No.8761191]

>>8761178

This is a literature board please take your genre trash to its containment thread.

But thank you for your service the negro nation recognizes your valuable contribution to race relations.

[Anonymous No.8761195]

>>8761178
>blacks are genetically capable of writing science fiction, erotica, crime novels, historical fiction, genre, religious fiction, theatre plays, or in general any other subject than the history of their ethnicity.

You're the libcuck

[Anonymous No.8761217]

>>8760744

[Anonymous No.8761244]

Their Eyes Were Watching God of course

[Anonymous No.8761254]

>>8761191
>>8761195

[Anonymous No.8761280]

>>8761254
That so?
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1479969856702.webm

[Anonymous No.8761536]

James Baldwin is lit af

[Anonymous No.8761577]

>>8760908
lel this is why commies are laughing stocks