Black People : Is Black Lit Dead?

I'm a cultural butterfly at times.

(Vulture) As for the title of this topic it seems so. There is something inside of me that refuses to believe its true. Every couple of years I change up. Social studies or fiction. At one while I was into biographies. I have the potential to put together a novel based on my journal entries. I'm also slipping in and out of action, romance and porn. (a study)

I had a great time in continued reading of CWD by Wisdomseed. Havent finished it yet.

I am so envious of a local 3 year old HISPANIC ORGANIZATION. Nuestra Palabra (Having their say) The reason being is that there is this undercurrent of COALITION. Not only would you see hispanic writers highlighted but asian, black and indian as well. I'm hunting for its equivalent.
 
BLACK literature

I didnt really get exposed to BLACK literature until college. I was arbitary, independent and a little naive.

I remember writing a lenghty noir crime story and read it in class in the 9th grade. Some how I lost it. I also remember a time where journal writing consisted of a couple of sentences. 10th grade. Environment played a major part of it.

There are two authors that really shaped my thinking to date. Alex Haley's Malcolm X when I was in college and the writings of Bell Hooks just for leisure reading. A good mix of socio-political.
 
Has it all be swallowed and spit out as..

What bothers me is the awful rut that black writing finds itself in, especially when other cultural writing approaches brilliance, not simply in the depth of its writing, but in the breadth of it. Right now, black writing is centered on the black upper-class and getting laid. It could just be me. A book was recommened to me and not even three chapters into it, there was the obligatory sex scene. I read 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, besides the challenge of reading it and keeping up with the writer, I do not remember sex scenes in the book, yet it was a very good book.
I guess this is where the black consciousness is, getting laid and having it made, or at least the pressures of having it made. Where are the books of poor people for who day to day life is a struggle for those who do not have it made. I am not saying that the bourgeois do not have issues worthy of being in print, it just kind of sucks that are whole literary consciousness is there as well.

What was the last book you read that was not about a middle class black woman or had something to do with relationship, and I am talking novel.
 
Novels

Those books were not novels. But the E. Lynn Harris book is, what of it? And what about the mysteries? What do they tell of our plight as a people?

No, I do not know of any black books for children. But there is a spider who is know by the name of Anansi. I first encountered Anansi as a set of West African fairy tales back when I was six years old. I later found that is is much more, a kind of West Africa mythology with Anansi as a trickster god.

Check it out.
 

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