![]() ![]() “Few African American writers had his sure-handed ability to depict the nitty-gritty of Black life,” Himes’s biographer Lawrence P. He also wrote about Black-white labor movements, same-sex relationships, interracial marriage and racism. After emigrating to France in the mid-50s (he lived in Europe until his death in 1984), Himes wrote perceptively about the Black expatriate experience. His body of work, though, defies tidy categorization. Himes knew something of crime and punishment himself, having served nearly eight years in prison for armed robbery. Starting with 1957’s “ A Rage in Harlem,” he wrote eight books that follow detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones through the New York underworld of the 1950s and ’60s. Himes’s revival in recent years has come on the strength of his noir crime fiction. In a recent essay, I look to such undervalued authors and works as the impetus for shaping a new Black canon. “We don’t have to go deep into archives to find undervalued Black authors,” says the poet and U.C.L.A. “It might mean finding that writer who is just being overlooked because of the canonicity of, say, Toni Morrison,” Rambsy says. Sometimes recovery demands peering into the shadows cast by towering canonical figures. ![]() “The act of recovery means something different now,” says Kenton Rambsy, an associate professor of English and digital humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington, whose research uses data analytics to tell new stories about the Black literary past. Alia Bhatt shares unseen photos with Ranbir Kapoor on first wedding anniversary.Fifty years ago, when college courses in Black American literature were rare when Zora Neale Hurston’s novels were out of print and Toni Morrison was a book editor with one novel to her name, the job of shaping a Black canon was clear: Rediscover, anthologize, define the terms of a tradition.Sennheiser Profile USB microphone review: Make the world listen.IPL 2023: Winless Delhi Capitals need to fire in unison to effect turnaround.‘It would have been a tough pill to swallow’: Hardik Pandya after GT vs PBKS last-over thriller.Uterine cramps after childbirth may be painful, but are a natural part of the postpartum healing process.BTS to release new song as a group for animated film Bastions. ![]() UPSC Essentials: Daily Subject-wise quiz - Environment, Geography, Science and Technology (Week 2).‘Dissent must be expressed with proper analysis’: Bombay HC dismisses plea to quash FIR for ‘Aug 5 Black Day for J&K’ WhatsApp status.Delhi Police arrest ‘Bunty Chor’ from UP’s Kanpur.Who is Laxman Savadi, the former Karnataka deputy CM who quit BJP and is set to join Congress?.Why heart disease risk goes up in women with endometriosis.Delhi HC appoints retired Justice Ajit Bharihoke as returning officer to oversee Equestrian Federation of India elections.US classified documents leak: Here’s what we know so far.Hema Malini apologises after ‘Bihu (Bihar)’ gaffe.Low footfall for Baisakhi mela as Amritpal posters seen all along Punjab roads leading to Talwandi Sabo.It also situates the gay man and his predicament in a much-too complicated Anglo-Indian family,which has an absconding father (Kabir Bedi),a still-youthful mother (Zeenat Aman in a comeback role which gets her to declaim rather than act most of the time) who submits to her lecherous boss because she wants the extrasnot for herself,but for her family,which is acknowledged by her cantankerous ma-in-law (Helen) at a crucial moment. ![]() Scared of putting off viewers,it balances the guy thing with a gal thing: the neglected wife is made to have a fling with the gay husbands younger brother who has the hots for her. stops well short of being a desi My Beautiful Laundrette or Brokeback Mountain because it doesnt go the mile. Not just in the way the men show skin and suck lip,but in the feelings they share: these are people who want to live together,not just have illicit sex. tries to take it further than just a furtive liason is in the way it shows the relationship between the two men: the married man nearly reaches the point of breaking off with his wife,but his lover refuses to let him.įor a Hindi movie,this is way beyond anything thats been shown in the homosexual range till now. He gets into an affair with an aspiring model-cum-actor who is auditioning ( Bollywood euphemism for sleeping with) around town. Till the interval,in fact,when we discover that a husband who neglects the woman hes married to,is into men. It takes a long time to get to the point. This is the statement of a fact that can bear repeating in mainstream cinema,but not in the way Dunno Y. ![]()
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