What do you guys think of black literature in general?

There's better material than pic related if that's what you're asking

>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wu-Tang-Clan-Once-Upon-A-Time-In-Shaolin-Rare-CD-/132319745117

Some guy is selling a Wu Tang CD for a literally a million dollars on ebay, let me know when a copy of Infinite Jest goes for 100 bucks whiteboi

>>9989706
I just put that pic because it's the cover for the book I recently read for my lit class, "native son"

>>9989706
Sorry If it was offensive

>>9989974
I, too, read Native Son in lit class

better alternatives:
Invisible Man
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Also I liked Beasts of No Nation

>>9989772
> some guy

WE

>>9989997
What makes them better alternatives? Also is beloved any good? It's on the lit reading list

>>9990033
Beloved transcends the medium of literature
It's shit

>>9990033
I haven't read it

>>9990033
Beloved is pretty good.

suck my fucking nigger dick

Flight to Canada is really cool. I read this book about a black professor who likes Edgar Allen Poe a lot and basically retreats Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym novel. Sam Dubose has cool sci-fi. Sorry if this is just a few disparate recommendations. I think it's pretty hard to generalize black literature. It helps to go back to slave narratives to see where a lot of tropes in American black lit come from. Equiano's is pretty cool.

>>9990016
WUZ

It's very difficult to discuss given that, like "whites" there isn't a singular "black" race but many different sub-saharan races and the cultures of their diasporas. Depending on the historical, geopolitical and socioeconomic contexts one culture produces literature that reflects widely different values and viewpoints than another culture. But because we rely on crude, reductive markers based on skin pigmentation to group together different cultures and races we lose that nuance.

So for instance many of the afro-caribbean cultures are influenced by plantation culture and the issues and struggles surrounding that culture. This is often blended with influences from various white settler cultures. Nigerian or Ghanaian literature however often deals with racial and religious division and the fallout from failed colonial projects. And so on.

>>9990144
AUTHAZ

>>9989772
>I decided to purchase this album as a gift to the Wu-Tang Clan for their tremendous musical output.
>Instead I received scorn from at least one of their (least-intelligent) members, and the world at large failed to see my purpose of putting a serious value behind music.
i'd just break it honestly, they should be grateful he bought it for that much

I was really saddened and disgusted by the protag's complete awfulness.