
Writers and missionaries w/ Adam Shatz
Politics Theory Other
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The Importance of Transfiguration in the Life of Chester Himes
"I describe him in that essay as Black literature's one authentic nihilist," she says. "He was unapologetic and at the same time very honest" Himes suffered from racism, but his relationships with women were mostly white; he also had an affair with a male prisoner. The awful things that we harbor are as much a part of us as our capacity for good, Nnedi writes.
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