Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays / Jesse McCarthy.
Title:
Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays / Jesse McCarthy.
ISBN:
9781631496486
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Physical Description:
xxi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Master's tools -- Origin of others -- Venus and the angel of history -- Low end theory -- Black Dada nihilismus -- To make a poet Black -- Back in the day -- Notes on trap -- An open letter to D'Angelo -- Language and the Black intellectual tradition -- Underground man -- Fathers and sons -- Protest poets -- On Afropessimism -- Who will pay reparations on my soul? -- Work of art in the age of spectacular reproduction -- What is a café? -- In the zone -- Time of the assassins -- Harlem is everywhere.
Summary:
"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." --Zadie Smith. A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.
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OCLC Number:
on1155080620
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
