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2016-05-18 18:24:33
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Hello, /lit. I want to ask you about ZZ Packer. Well, not really. I want to ask you to point me to authors similar to her, or to works similar to hers.
I am a student of English (translation in particular), and I want to write my MA on translating the widely understood "Black English", and I may pick a book and translate it, and write about the process and the challenges. Problem is, I don't want to go to the obvious - Toni Morrison, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Invisible Man, etc. I want to translate something relatively contemporary. I did a bunch of research, and came up with ZZ Packer. She seemed perfect -- a collection of stories, contemporary, includes a variation of English, didn't revolve about super dramatic events like sexual abuse or rape (which is quite common from what I've seen).
Problem is, she's already been translated. Digging through the goodreads lists is tedious, and I thought you could help me out.
Right now I am seeing if Krik? Krak! will do the job.
inb4 >ethnicity lit is trash
I just don't want to end up doing Sister Souljah or 50 cent or something
