richardmurray

nice, clearly an ode, I think he refers to black female writers in general. Jemesin/tananrive due/ et cetera are all climbing as a literary group... I will offer one suggestion. Art history proves that popularity dictates the artists that most people remember. All too often many artists when alive are not popular and post mortem become standardized, in the usa usually through fiscal operators wanting to use their stories and not give them money... But, the black community in the usa is coming to a place where black female writers will be the center of the literary world in the black community in the usa. I think the black community in the usa will have the first human community in any modern country, modern defined as the time of this posting to the past 500 years, where the popular literature within it will be dominated, and yes the word is dominated by women. And, by default will influence the female writers position or status or opportunity in other communities, positively or negatively.