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What does /lit/ think of James Baldwin? I enjoyed Giovanni's Room to a certain degree, if only because for some reason I envisioned all of the characters as Metal Gear characters, which was funny I guess.

>> No.17902475

>>17901348
Giovanni's Room sticks out to me as well because I'm gay as well but all of his work is solid. I just can't connect to the others as well because I'm black and haven't faced that kind of discrimination I have as a fag.

>> No.17902479

>>17902475
because I'm NOT black that should say. It's 3 am here I should sleep.

>> No.17903388

>>17901348
I read it last week and found it very enjoyable, with competent prose and great emotional depth. I'll be checking out his other works.

>> No.17904356

>>17901348
Wat, what influenced you to placehold the characters as Metal Gear characters?

>> No.17905578

>>17904356
Thought of David as Liquid. Everything just kinda unfolded from there

>> No.17905829

>>17901348
I like Baldwin’s work, but after getting deep into Chester Himes’ I can’t get his criticisms of Baldwin and Wright out of my head.
> “At times my soul brothers embarrassed me, bragging about their scars, their poor upbringing, and their unhappy childhood, to get some sympathy and some white pussy and money, too, if they could,” Himes wrote. “It was a new variety of Uncle-Toming.”

>Himes called the black American “the most neurotic, complicated, schizophrenic, unanalyzed, anthropologically advanced specimen of mankind in the history of the world,”

>> No.17907099

>>17901348
when i was reading his essays i found it remarkable the sheer level of contempt he clearly had for black america. it must be a lonely place to hate blacks for being what the are while also hating whites because you're black

>> No.17907103

i've only read giovanni's room but it was great

>> No.17907633

>>17905829
>At times my soul brothers embarrassed me, bragging about their scars, their poor upbringing, and their unhappy childhood, to get some sympathy and some white pussy and money, too, if they could,” Himes wrote. “It was a new variety of Uncle-Toming.
Literally describes every Black "activist" and "intellectual" today, only an idiot or someone from the aforementioned would think integration was the right move.