'An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.’ #DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 60/52 ★★★☆☆

A love story, a sad one. Am not a fan of the genre myself, but I could appreciate this one. Hurston wrote in the vernacular of her characters, while the backdrop tells of how Black Americans, especially women, struggled to make a living in the 1930s.

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon
@bookstodon
#Lezen #Read
#Classic #BlackLiterature

Go Slow

Go slow, they say-
while the bite
Of the dog is fast.
Go slow, I hear-
While they tell me
You can't eat here!
You can't live here!
You can't work here!
Don't Demonstrate! Wait!-
While they lock the gate.
Am I supposed to be God,
Or an angel with wings
And a halo on my head
While jobless I starve to dead?
Am I supposed to forgive
And meekly live
Going slow, slow, slow,
Slow, slow, slow,
Slow, slow,
Slow,
Slow,
Slow?
????
???
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
#LangstonHughes #HarlemRenaissance #BlackLiterature

https://archive.org/details/pan-african-ideal

The Pan African Ideal in Literatures of the Black World by Kofi Anyidoho

Topics
#Blackliterature, #PanAfricanism, #Africandiasporicliterature, #Africanliterature, #politicsofliterature, #literarystudies, #literarytheory, #literarycriticism

"An Inter-Faculty Lecture delivered at the University of Ghana, Legon on January 21, 1988"

Tales of forgotten days
Unlock buried memories
African American art

#blackliterature #africanamerican #rediscovery #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/t-magazine/black-literary-canon.html

White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this — which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never — the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
#literature #blackwriters #blackliterature

One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one needed, in order to be free, something more than a bank account.

James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
#literature #blackwriters #blackliterature

#AkwaekeEmezi :

I’m also interested in how writing spiritfirst in an industry that doesn’t really reckon with spirit places my work, but I know eye will always place it where it belongs, centered in spirit. My job is to hold that center, and as Morrison said, wait for the world to move over.

#BlackLiterature #AfricanLiterature #Igbo #ogbanje

"It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself."
—Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man (1952).
https://archive.org/details/invisibleman00elli/page/14/mode/1up?q=%22It+took+me+a+long+time%22&view=theater. #BlackLiterature #quotes #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan

"Joseph Coelho & Jason Reynolds have plenty in common. Both are award-winning authors who are currently national representatives for children’s literature: earlier this year, Coelho became the UK children’s laureate, while Reynolds holds the equivalent role in the US... They are around the same age (Coelho is 42 and Reynolds is 38), both found a love for words through poetry, and both are Black writers"
#Children #Literature #BlackWriters
#BlackLiterature #Bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/17/ive-been-banned-since-the-beginning-jason-reynolds-talks-to-joseph-coelho

Not planning to do a lot of promotion - self or otherwise - on here, but my mother's latest #poetry collection (Pam Mordecai, A FIERCE GREEN PLACE) just received a very favourable mention in the California Review of Books and I'm very proud:
https://calirb.com/poetry-book-reviews-for-the-holidays/
#LiteratureInEnglish
#BlackLiterature
#BlackPoets
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanPoetry

Engaging Drama in old Vancouver!

Our Second discussion of Junie by Chelene Knight!

Join us LIVE @ 6:30 pm PST/9:30 pm EST: https://youtu.be/L42cIqGDxsM

#writingcommunity #indieauthor #indiepublishing #onlinecommunity #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #stream #livestream #amwriting #amreading #vancouverwriters #canlit #writeyourstory #emergingwriters #black #queer #LGBTQ #blackliterature

#BlackExcellence #BlackBrit #BlackLiterature

@anneursu

@bookstodon

Great question! check out the "suggested reading" section here at Goldsmiths University of London's MA Black British Literature: https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-black-british-literature/
#BlackExcellence #BlackBrit #BlackLiterature

Finally bought something with the money my Dad sent me for my birthday.

Three of a series by Octavia Butler: DAWN, ADULTHOOD RITES, IMAGO.

#OctaviaButler #ScienceFiction #BlackExcellence #BlackFutureMonth #BlackLiterature

Our FIRST discussion of Junie by Chelene Knight!

Join the discussion LIVE with Avalon & Rory @ 6:30 pm PST/9:30 pm EST: https://youtu.be/NRq3F2rddNo

#writingcommunity #indieauthor #indiepublishing #onlinecommunity #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #stream #livestream #amwriting #amreading #vancouverwriters #canlit #authorsofinsta #writeyourstory #emergingwriters #black #queer #LGBTQ #blackliterature

Notes on Mermaids and Passing As Human

 
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
— Alexander Pope, “Essay on Man, Epistle II”
 

There’s much to say about the allegorical poten

http://lunastationquarterly.com/notes-on-mermaids-and-passing-as-human/

#Enclaves:ABlackFemmeDreams #blackliterature #colorism #mermaids #passing #whitepassing

#TodayInFocus | #News | #TheGuardian

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Today in Focus: Revisited: #Britain’s rich #history of #blackliterature https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus