Title:
Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
xxi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781631496486
Abstract:
A young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap. -- adapted from back cover.
"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." --Zadie Smith. A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.
Contents:
The master's tools -- The origin of others -- Venus and the angel of history -- The low end theory -- Black Dada nihilismus -- To make a poet black -- Back in the day -- Notes on trap -- An open letter to D'Angelo -- Language and the black intellectual tradition -- Underground man -- Fathers and sons -- The protest poets -- On Afropessimism -- Who will pay reparations on my soul? -- The work of art in the age of spectacular reproduction -- What is a cafe? -- In the zone -- The time of the assassins -- Harlem is everywhere.
Genre:
Language:
English
