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Pym
by Mat Johnson
3.5/5. I had an American Lit professor at Queens College who taught this in tandem with Poe’s Arthur Gordon Pym and it taught me more about the history of American storytelling (of both the literary and cultural varieties) than any other class I took in my scholastic career.
This book might distract you with how funny it is, but it is one of the most profoundly insightful literary and social critiques I have ever read. Poe’s Pym has very little value as a literary artifact: it is sloppy and inconsistent and just generally shitty. But it is of immense value in illuminating how arbitrary and strategic American racism has always been in practice. Poe’s story is an absolute mess and a demonstration of his limitations as a writer and as a man, but his failures here reveal more to us than he would ever have been capable of through his triumphs.
This book might distract you with how funny it is, but it is one of the most profoundly insightful literary and social critiques I have ever read. Poe’s Pym has very little value as a literary artifact: it is sloppy and inconsistent and just generally shitty. But it is of immense value in illuminating how arbitrary and strategic American racism has always been in practice. Poe’s story is an absolute mess and a demonstration of his limitations as a writer and as a man, but his failures here reveal more to us than he would ever have been capable of through his triumphs.