Is black literature good? What should I start with?

>>8951581
The Invisible Man and the play "Fences."

>>8951589
I read invisible man, it was ok. Is Song of Solomon better? I don't want to waste my time you know.

>>8951590
I liked Fences a lot. Seeing it with James Earl Jones would be cool as fuck

>>8951593
If you thought Invisible Man was just okay then you probably just shouldn't read black American lit. Song of Solomon is Morrison at her best, but Ellison is black lit at its best.

>>8951593
>Is Song of Solomon better?
No, it's a deeply mediocre novel that's promoted by self-flagellating whites for political reasons rather than literary merit. Essentially it's a racist anti-White diatribe that's poorly disguised by the author's sanctimony and false empathy for other races. Blacks still don't understand symbolism or how to structure a narrative, so expect lots of wacky hair colors, hilariously incompetent and heavy-handed biblical references, and an incessant stream of super quirky non sequiturs that wouldn't be out of place in a pretentious film student's first movie.

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>>8951704
That fat retard considers Angels in America to be part of the Western Canon and didn't have sex until he was 34

>>8951768
>>he's a virgin!
I literally said the opposite of that
>>click bait article about identity politics
Toni Morrison IS clickbait identity politics incarnate; it is impossible to discuss her books without discussing the failures of black identitarians

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Why do marxists who don't like identity politics always implicitly support non-white tribalism, or explicitly in the form of groups like the Black Panthers, when this same tribalism is a reflection of White fascism?

Is it because marxists always support the loser in everything or they unironically believe black people are tribalistic purely down to social environmentalist "whitey did it"?

Let's say in Africa a black neo-liberal/capitalist elite came to power, would marxists support "White Power" National Socialists who are ideologically nationalist, like black power groups are, but economically 100% socialist/communist? Like if there was a White minority group in that country and they were susceptible to revolution.

Obioma, Beatty, Marlon James, thiongo, dumas

I read the play A Raisin in the Sun back in highschool and I remember liking it, but that was awhile back.

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>>8951581
Moving on from your rather retarded question - meaning: beyond so called "Black Literature" ( literature being for a person by a person), If you haven't read the Narrative of Fredrick Douglass then you need to turn off your distractions and read it right now.

>>8952545
>If you haven't been bored to death by the Narrative of Frederick Douglass then you need to hate yourself like me and force yourself to enjoy shitty art

>>8952312
You're the first person ITT to bring up Marxists.

>>8953133
>shityy art
>Narrative

ur an idiot

>>8952312
>Is it because marxists always support the loser in everything?
Literally this.

>>8953937

Not classical Marxists, not even many outbranchings of classical Marxism. For instance I'd risk a very peculiar claim after studying Stalinism for some time that as a ideology it features many conservative elements, hierarchical power dynamic being one of them. Though, new wave Marxists probably fall into the category you are describing.

>>8952312
>always support the loser in everything
It's this. This is the basic concept of Marxism - dismantling the standing power structure and distributing the collected wealth of that system to anyone that can be defined by identity politics as the oppressed

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>>8951581

>Columbus wants to travel India
>black guy fails the navigation

>>8951599
Saw the movie version and felt like it suffered from lack of motivating characterization outside of the main character, is the play stronger in that regard?

>>8951581
i muthafuckin luv black literachore and shit nigga. me n ma niggas down on krenshaw street aka da block of da killaz reed deez blk poetz nd shit evryday while we trappin n shootin at da police n shiet. ma niggas really grindin tryin to mak it out of da hood nd da bookz r r path.
t.10th street krenshaw killa

>>8951581
>black
>good
nah

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>>8954080
>/pol/ trying to be funny

>>8951581

Like others have said Invisible Man is pretty ballin'. I would also check out anything by Douglass.

>>8951581
READ BALDWIN

>>8954139
And succeeding.