a black person has never written a good book. prove me wrong.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

>>7496062
jesus wrote the bible, right?

Souls of Black Folk
Anything by James Baldwin

>>7496067
Lol.

Invisible Man

>>7496116
>>7496074
/thread

>>7496113
Hey, it's on Bloom's canon list

Giovanni's Room
Native Son

And I loved Walter Dean Meyers when I was growing up. Scorpions was a book I re-read a lot. Basically young adult literature meets season 1 of The Wire.

A black person wrote A Raisin in the Sun right?

>>7496113
-Amazing plot
-Amazing prose
Fuck off

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>>7496062

They certainly wrote the book on crime. It's a decent read.

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>>7496062
Alexandre Dumas is black

Dhalgren

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>>7496071

>>7496062
A white cis male has never written a good book.prove me wrong.

>>7497302
>Not realizing that was obviously a joke.

>>7496126
Not disagreeing with the quality of the book but that list was shite and half of it didn't belong in the Canon.

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Please pardon my pimp-esque prose, padre.

>>7496137
Fallen Angels is pretty great too

>>7496071
kek

>>7496074
>>7496116
>>7496137
>>7497412

Agreed. I've also always had a soft spot for Chinua Achebe but I don't think /lit/ shares this soft spot with me as he is never really mentioned here.

Also if autobiographies count, then Malcolm X's autobiography, Miles Davis' Miles and Charles Mingus' Beneath The Underdog are worthwhile.

>>7497262
>>7496067
>>7496116
>>7496074
why does this thread even exist, there are tons

>>7496137
I didn't know Giovanni's Room was written by a black guy. Cool.

>>7497494
holy pleb

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>>7497495
pseud pleb and/or b8

>>7496062
>he hasn't heard of Pushkin

Wow, just... wow.

>>7497707
>>7497495
we can attribute the great works of history to black people all we want and chock it up to racist cover-ups and biases, but that doesn't explain why there are no good black authors today.

>>7497495

we wuz kingz

>>7497495
http://www.snopes.com/amelia-bassano-william-shakespeare/

Please leave with your bait, anon.

Cane by Jean Toomer

how come /lit/ never talks about Marlon James? he's gonna be big, get on the band wagon early

hogg

MUH YAMS

>>7496062
i will

>>7496062
>he hasn't read Pimp

learn your memes

>>7496126
XDDDF

>>7497322
a cartomante e uns braços são excelentes contos para se ler enquanto fuma ganja.