Magical Negro
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Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1947793187
ISBN13:9781947793187
Release Date:February 2019
Publisher:Tin House Books
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.42 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"
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