A powerful poetry collection exploring Black everydayness, grief, and stereotypes through elegy and declaration.
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A powerful poetry collection exploring Black everydayness, grief, and stereotypes through elegy and declaration.
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Parker presents an archive of black everydayness; a catalog of contemporary folk heroes. Her poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration. She connects themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification while exploring the troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. -- adapted from front flap"Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, ...
What's Inside
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Romance & sex
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Minor references to sexuality; not explicit or central. To objectification; not explicit assault.
Violence & gore
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Brief mentions of violence; not graphic or pervasive.
Profanity
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Occasional strong language; not frequent or severe.
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Minor presence of LGBTQ+ themes or identities.
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources.
Magic & witchcraft
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No evidence found in available sources.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Strong focus on social and cultural issues of Black identity and stereotypes.
Self-harm / suicide
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Brief mentions of emotional distress; not explicit or central.
Abuse & suffering
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Recurring themes of ancestral trauma and systemic suffering. To objectification; not explicit assault.
Other
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