DeShaun’s Voice is Like A House of Popsicle Sticks

The first section of Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta contains instances of child-like paraphernalia that are realized through the characters’ voices. The descriptions of the voices are not phrases commonly used. When talking about the fictional creature with Tasha, DeShaun says “‘You could tell me. I won’t tell anybody.’ DeShaun’s voice collapsed like a house made…

Ahmad White and the Path(s) to Success

Gilroy mentions Marshall Berman’s return to the South Bronx and sees how “the breakdancers and graffitists that he observes moving across the shadows of that desolate urban landscape are not so easily to be claimed for the overarching modernism he seeks to affirm” (Gilroy 47). There is much difficulty to locate where we see modernism…