Your best bet tonight for a little literary mind-expansion is at Powell’s, where Frank B. Wilderson reads from Incognegro, about his experiences as one of two black American members of South Africa’s African National Congress. According to his press bio, Wilderson grew up in Minneapolis, became involved with student protests and the Black Panthers at Berkley, then moved to South Africa, where he “taught at Johannesburg and Soweto universities by day. By night, he helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda, launch psychological warfare, and more.” In 1995, he was informed that Nelson Mandela considered him “a threat to national security,” a fact his press materials make much of, and which apparently inspired him to write Incognegro. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 pm
Also tonight, Shawn Granton (editor of The Zinesters Guide to Portland and Erica Schreiner (The Way Things Used to Be author) kick off the Multnomah County Library’s fourth annual Zinesters Talking series, which will continue every Tuesday through September 30 at various library branches. Tonight’s is at the Central Library in the US Bank room, 6:30-7:45 pm.
As ever, more literary haps in our book listings.
I was wondering how someone was going to do a proper reading for a Graphic Novel (Incognegro: http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=8574 ) but I suppose this “Incognegro” sounds even more interesting.
I got confused about that too… I have a copy of the graphic novel but I haven’t read it yet, is it any good?
I’m not that far into it, so I can’t say! It is in my stack of evergrowing “must reads”
yay, let’s glorify black racists.
kill whitey is so hot right now