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al_zorra ([personal profile] al_zorra) wrote in [community profile] readingthepast 2009-06-03 01:39 am (UTC)

I put in a bunch of suggestions in the Africa theme -- many of them by Africans, or as in Maryse Condé's case, she was born in Guadeloupe, but she did live in Africa for a while and wrote some wonderful historical and non-historicals from that experience. Her Segu is particularly wonderful.

Another one is The African, which isn't written by an African (though like Dr. Robert Farris Thompson) Courlander was considered brother by Africans and black caribbeanists -- this is the novel Alex Haley plagerized from for his first section of Roots, and so did Frank Yerby, for his The Dahomeyan -- and both they and Courlander were wrong about Yoruba in North America.

These are the people who began the work that finally put African, and New World diaspora African culture and religon into the discourse as Art and expression of the highest respect.

Love, C.

Love, C.

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