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Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 05:50 pm: | 
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Hello All,
I'm breaking hiatus to tell y'all that I've been feeling a little mannish when it comes to my reading here lately. I've been reading male authors. And boy, am I happy about that. First it was that Clarence Major's Such Was The Season (now wasn't that a pip of a book?). I've moved on to Steven Barnes' most wonderful Zulu Heart, the sequel to last year's Lion's Blood. Zulu Heart is magnificent! It's Gone With The Wind for adults. I'm approaching the middle of the book now. I'll drop a line when I'm finished. Then I think I'll start on The Known World by Edward Jones. I heard that that was a good one. |
Yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 10:49 am: |
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Thumper,
Check John Edgar Wideman's Sent for You Yesterday....for a "mannish" perspective....also, check some of his nonfiction, especially is treatment of men in Brothers and Keepers.....Reuben, another novel, also deals with a "male" perspective.....
Enjoy! |
Yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 10:51 am: |
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all or most of wideman's literature can be characterized as "mannish." You can also evaluate his work as covering a century of black manhood.....as one can say about Toni Morrison...they both cover slavery to freedom,migration, urbanization, etc..... |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 03:53 pm: |
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Yukio:
I just finished Wideman's Collected Short stories (Damballah, Fever, All stories are True) and Identities (His first three novels).
I guess they are mannish in that the protagonists are men but other than that I see his work as so intellectual, poetic and artistic that it transcends sex. |
yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 10:29 pm: |
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I don't disagree, but i think his latter work especially attempts to address the experiences of the black men in an Northeastern urban setting. His aesthetics shape the subjects, no? |
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