Magical Negro

by Morgan Parker

Book Overview

Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947793187
• ISBN13: 9781947793187
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"