Category: ethnogothic

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+ ethnogothic, gothic literature, lillian e smith, Literature, new york, portrait of lysbeth, Rama Santa Mansa

The Importance of Literature

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Why do we read literature? What goes into our literary choices, those books we choose to pick up off of the shelf and dive into? Do we bring them down from the shelf to escape, for pure entertainment? Do we open them up to learn something new about the world around us? Do we turn the pages to learn something new about ourselves? Or, … Read More The Importance of Literature

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+ anansi, comics, ethnogothic, gothic literature, Greg Anderson Elysée, is'nana the were spider, Uncategorized

The Importance of Stories in Greg Anderson Elysée’s “Is’Nana The Were Spider”

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Every semester, I include a few texts on my syllabus that I have never read, so I get to encounter the texts for the first time alongside my students. For my “Monsters, Race, and Comics” class, someone (I apologize but I forgot who) suggested that check out Greg Anderson Elysée’s Is’Nana The Were-Spider. I read a description of the series and added it to my syllabus. IsNana … Read More The Importance of Stories in Greg Anderson Elysée’s “Is’Nana The Were Spider”

+ birth of a nation, ethnogothic, frank yerby, gone with the wind, gothic literature, P. Djèlí Clark, race, ring shout, the foxes of harrow

Conversation with P. Djèlí Clark

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Over the last couple of posts, I have written about the monstrosity of racism in P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout and in David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene’s Bitter Root. Since I am teaching this texts this semester, I reached out to Clark to see if he might be available to Zoom in with my class. Unfortunately, he would not be able to … Read More Conversation with P. Djèlí Clark

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+ bitter root, chuck brown, comics, david f walker, ethnogothic, lillian e smith, P. Djèlí Clark, ring shout, sanford green

Johnnie-Ray Knox and The Hope in the Future

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In the last post, I wrote about the mother and son in P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout who finally see the monstrous effects of racism on an individual at the end of the novel. I taught Clark’s Ring Shout in my Multiethnic American Literature course a few weeks ago, and we followed up Clark’s novella with David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene’s Bitter … Read More Johnnie-Ray Knox and The Hope in the Future

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+ bitter root, chuck brown, cyborg, david f walker, ethnogothic, John Jennings, sanford green, truth: red, white, and black

The Ethnogothic

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Recently, I finally had the chance to read all of David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Green’s Bitter Root vol. 1. In “Deep Roots/Rich Soil: Race, Horror and the Ethnogothic” (a back matter essay to Bitter Root), John Ira Jennings lays out what him and Stanford Carpenter call the “EthnoGothic,” a term I want to look at some today in relation to Bitter Root … Read More The Ethnogothic

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