![]() ![]() The American Dream is buttressed by the labor extracted from 'stolen black bodies' (as Ta-Nehisi Coates would say) and the genocide of its original inhabitants. They try to walk, they try to walk - the feet keep reaching long after the neck has broken or the head has choked. Swaying in the light wind, rags of clothing flapping the shrunken limbs into motion. I must always return to what the white men kept hanging in all the lovely cottonwood trees along the rivers and streams throughout this land. ![]() And applaud as a silent witness to the fictional resurrection of a people and civilization so meticulously blotted out, first from existence, then from consciousness and memory. ![]() ![]() But what one can do is reverentially acknowledge the handiwork of this authorial anger, appreciate the blurred edges of a story - an important one - that emerge from the void of a mass amnesia and a carefully preserved collective delusion. There is, perhaps, no way to bestow readerly affection on a work so single-mindedly driven by an intense fury. ![]()
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