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Magical Negro (Paperback)
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Magical Negro (Paperback)
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List price R318
Loot Price R256
Discovery Miles 2 560
You Save R62 (19%)
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'To read MAGICAL NEGRO it is to wonder what each poem will do next,
and to be reminded, over and over, of Parker's extraordinary lyric
gifts' Meghan O'Rourke MAGICAL NEGRO is an archive of Black
everydayness, a catalogue of contemporary folk heroes, an
ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads,
idioms and customs. These 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 tropes and stereotypes of
Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of Black womanhood
alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and
exterior politics - of both the body and society, of both the
individual and the collective experience. In MAGICAL NEGRO, Morgan
Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of
pointing out patterns. In these poems are living documents, pleas,
latent traumas, inside jokes and unspoken anxieties situated as
firmly in the past as in the present - timeless Black melancholies
and triumphs.
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