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Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays / Jesse McCarthy.

Summary:

A young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap. -- adapted from back cover.

"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." -- Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781631496486
ISBN: 1631496484
Physical Description: xxi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." --Zadie Smith." -- Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.