Books to read if you liked the film Pinners
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As I saw the sinners of Ryan Coogler last week, I felt like I was already late. The film seemed to draw the attention of moviegoers as soon as it was released – although it did not come without a little strangely derogatory framing by Some points of sale. However, the film was in everyone’s mind, many people reporting the seer two or three times in theaters. Unsurprisingly, it also means that there have been a number of thinking pieces and, yes, lists of books. I did my best to avoid them before seeing the film myself in order to be able to train my own opinion.
I must say that, even with its more extravagant and fantastic elements, I was able to slip into a familiarity that I carried out later with the kind authorization of my South education, although it has not lived in the region for more than 10 years. I gathered a group of books that touch each of the major themes and feelings Sinners. They are sometimes grotesque, festive, ancestral and spiritual – all evocatives from the South.
The Ballad de Tom Noir by Victor Lavalle
Tonally, this news corresponds to the general feeling of Sinners The best of all the books on this list. It is a story in the history of existential horror of HP Lovecraft Horror to Red HookAnd is, in many ways, recovery. Lovecraft was an unleashed racist (even for his time) was influenced by blacks Just as he despised us, and it is a bit ironic (but also perhaps simply typical) that the same cosmic horror Lovecraft has become known to explore exactly the same kind of global existential redoubt that black American have felt for hundreds of years in this country.
The delicious negro: human consumption and homoeroticism in American slave culture By Vincent Woodard
At that time, even if you have not seen the film, you may have supposed that vampires are used as a metaphor for (sometimes literal) consumption of black body in the name of someone’s collective gain. These someone are not black, of course. In the Woodard lambda prize winner book, the consumption claims of people who are reduced to slavery receive credits. It connects cannibalism, homoeroticism and the culture of consumption necessary to nourish the beast which is colonialism.
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