need ever more critical. It is incumbent upon us all to get our work done. To provide alternative ... TQ: You knew this was coming...I’ve had the privilege of hearing all of you perform your work. You’re ... embrace its discarded bits. Afrofuturists gather us; they imagine compassionate, joyous Black futures; ...
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art and all of us are trying to figure it out.” TQ: Do you write every day? MS: I do, I do. Primarily ... it’s the best. TQ: I had to stop listening to 2nd Story and The Moth on the way to work, because, you ... is doing something, but you don’t know exactly what she’s doing, but it doesn’t matter. TQ ...
Riddley Walker suggests, and as we all know, when we are able to admit it, is that our relations with our ... why the strain has such a mortal energy behind it. This strain is also at the heart of the attitude ... One of the central figures for abjection is the body of the child, which in its separation from us ...
representations of Black womanhood. TQ: Sankofa ideology and the journey “back” really help us to understand the ... appreciate that the Middle Passage engineered its own cultural monolith since many Black people in the U.S ... Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. TQ: I would add Shange’s Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo along ...
two projects. TQ: Your characters in the novel are all trying to do something to help, with mixed ... of the genocide happening in Europe. It is a story of the Holocaust told from an insightful and new ... perspective—a perspective all of us can relate to—that of being an observer of horrible and tragic events, while ...
Mead, thinking I would never read it. But I started reading and was captivated by her. TQ: Well, she was ... hours she had fallen in love with him. And it was a crazy chemistry for all three of them, they all ... plan for the novel, and then once it was his story, I had to change the whole plot. TQ: So that brings ...
else in me, such as delight over the concision and clarity, wonder over the intangible concepts she ... tell) description is created. TQ: In THRESHOLES, you write, “to force someone to speak in a manner that ... of feeling, or the manner in which a person understands their own subjectivity, and speaks of it to ...
Virginia, in 1997. He has made several contributions to T riQuarterly, including an essay in TQ #80, a story ... in TQ #82, and translations from Spanish in TQ #85 (New Writing from Mexico); he was also the guest ... editor of TQ #87. * * * Dave Smith is the co-editor of the Southern Review. His most recent book, Night ...
these journeys all the time. TQ: Is it fair to understand these stories as a commentary on ... present? CJ: All my life I’ve said that what I want when I read a story or a novel is “to laugh, to cry, ... novel, Middle Passage, and your short story, “The Weave,” you conjure up characters who, like all of us ...
to dis cuss it or to talk it over; she had done all that and concluded that it was over. She said it ... in full-length clothes, wear vermilion in her hair, speak in dulcet tones, lower her eyes when ... speaking to elders, and stand in attendance, serv ing us during mealtimes. I was surprised to find Amay ...
