The Black Man's Sob
The Black Man's Sob
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Is it enough to be black to be brothers? What do a West Indian, a Senegalese and a black man born in Paris have in common, if not the color to which they complain of being reduced? And the genealogy that they have forged for themselves, that of misfortune and humiliation (slavery, colonization, immigration)… In this essay, Alain Mabanckou refuses to define black identity by tears and resentment. Alain Mabanckou is an essayist, poet and novelist. In 2015, he was a professor of artistic creation at the Collège de France. He is notably the author of Petit Piment, Mémoires de Pointe-Noire and Le monde est mon langage. “A text that ignores all political correctness.” L'Humanité
