Missing Malcom X

[ish mailian]

DECONSTRUCTING THE ENEMY OF COLOR: THE FANTASTIC IN "GRAVITY'S
RAINBOW" Author(s): LANCE OLSEN Source: Studies in the Novel, Vol. 18,
No. 1 (spring 1986), pp. 74-86

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:14 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dragging/Drugging  Malcom into the White Visitation, color into its
> absence, is, ironically, another full circle, a rainbow.
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And, as a middle-class white boy once said to me:
>> "The Autobiography of Malcolm X scared the shit out of me"....
>>
>> Another Pynchonian resonance?
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:06 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What makes Malcolm different from every signature Black figure in
>>> American history is that he combines the two central characters of
>>> Black folk culture. He is both the trickster and the minister. He’s
>>> both. That’s “Detroit Red”—the hustler, the gambler, the outlaw. And,
>>> he is also the minister who saves souls, who redeems lives, who heals
>>> the sick, who raises the dead. He’s both. King is one. Jesse Jackson
>>> is one. Malcolm’s both and he understood the streets and the lumpen
>>> proletariat. I hate that phrase, but it comes from Marx. As well as,
>>> he saw himself as a minister and an Amun, a cleric. He was always
>>> this. And he embodied the cultural spirit of Black folk better than
>>> anyone else. When I asked one student about a decade ago, “What was
>>> the fundamental difference between Malcolm and Martin?” He said, “Dr.
>>> Marable, that’s easy. Martin Luther King, Jr., belongs to the entire
>>> world. Malcolm X belongs to us.” There is a tremendous degree of
>>> identification on the part of people of African descent, and globally
>>> on the part of Muslims, invested in the figure of Malcolm.
>>>
>>> http://isreview.org/issue/63/missing-malcolm
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