Zong!
8 best books like Zong! (M. NourbeSe Philip): A Small Place, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, Corregidora, Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S*PeRM**K*T / Muse and Drudge, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Whereas, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
| Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0374527075 |
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization...
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
| Author | Saidiya V. Hartman |
| ISBN | 0393285677 |
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer...
| Author | Gayl Jones |
| ISBN | 0807063150 |
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
From the back cover: "History and fiction have yielded little about those black slave women who were mistress and...
| Author | Harryette Mullen |
| ISBN | 1555974562 |
Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary
if you turned down the media
so I could write a book
then you could look me up
in your voluminous recyclopedia
-from Muse & Drudge
Recyclopedia...
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
| Author | Fred Moten |
| ISBN | 1570272670 |
In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique. Today the general wealth of social life finds itself confronted by mutations...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
| Author | Christina Sharpe |
| ISBN | 0822362945 |
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead,...
| Author | Layli Long Soldier |
| ISBN | 1555977677 |
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award
WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our...
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1555974074 |
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the...
