Nafissa Thompson-Spires; Heads of Colored People
All right, all right, all right. I am trying something new. Welcome to from the margins. I do not own the rights to their music. That is one of my new favorite artists. Coffee singing her toast. I love this upcoming artist. She's so full of the spirit of what I think about when I think about reggae. And I'm happy to have her on my new repertoire of in my music
We spoke about Maurice Carlos Ruffin's american daughters briefly, and now we're speaking about heads of colored people. This book is an encyclopedia of the way trauma, the way black people experience trauma. It is strikingly intelligent, purposefully heady. And if we're thinking about fiction in terms of a fictive dream, something that you can get lost in, lose yourself in, I would not say this is that. This is that type of book. This work calls for your attention
Because those characters are so varied in their personalities are so myriad, they're so different that these characters could. These. This person could be any one of these characters, and any one of these characters could be any one person, any one black man. The other tool that pulls me is the metafiction. I spoke about the metafiction. You know, she addresses that within the story. She says, you would think, and that she's speaking about one of the characters
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When we talk about the deaths of women, we always talk about the deaths of death of women in terms of how it's related to her children, maybe the children she left behind or maybe the children that may have died with her. We always, and when we do, we, we make it very insignificant. Like we're talking about pets, you know, like our pet, our ant farm or something like that
If I may, I'm going to dive verge for a little bit and digress. I mean, and I'm going to. There's the scene in Invisible man where the unnamed protagonist, black man, is being expelled from school because he took a board member, a white board member, by request of his school president, for a ride around town
As I said in the beginning, this book is one that I will come to again and again. I believe it's an encyclopedia. If there was not another book, although I love books like this, but if there was not another book like this, then I would be happy with this one. That's it, folks. Thank you for bearing with me in the delivery of this week's swell cast. It has been trying, to say the least, to get it recorded