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A review by poenaestante
Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
5.0
Done! And I woulda finished it sooner if I'd not kept taking it all over the house with me and then losing it under piles of clothes or on the sides of the couch and such.
Bravo, Frank, you've broken my heart again. You've lived such an outrageously incredible life that I'd question it if I didn't already have so much evidence of it being true. And the life is what really got me here. The mishmash of theory -- Hartman and Lacan and Jared's stuff (oh your love for Jared deserves its own book, but I digress) --- have all been well-trod and frankly done better (and with more rigor and care) by those masters. Where you shine is in the living, Frank, the fearful, shameless, courageous, damnfool, bold ass, "that Negro is crazy!" living. These untold stories touched me so. I gasped, I teared up, I laughed, I welled up. Ms. Ida said you had two more books in you, but I so hope you have even more. Be well. Love, C
Bravo, Frank, you've broken my heart again. You've lived such an outrageously incredible life that I'd question it if I didn't already have so much evidence of it being true. And the life is what really got me here. The mishmash of theory -- Hartman and Lacan and Jared's stuff (oh your love for Jared deserves its own book, but I digress) --- have all been well-trod and frankly done better (and with more rigor and care) by those masters. Where you shine is in the living, Frank, the fearful, shameless, courageous, damnfool, bold ass, "that Negro is crazy!" living. These untold stories touched me so. I gasped, I teared up, I laughed, I welled up. Ms. Ida said you had two more books in you, but I so hope you have even more. Be well. Love, C