{"id":164312,"date":"2023-05-19T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=164312"},"modified":"2023-05-26T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:53:05","slug":"andrew-martin-danzy-senna-recommend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/05\/19\/andrew-martin-danzy-senna-recommend\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Canons: Danzy Senna and Andrew Martin Recommend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_164348\" style=\"width: 1033px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/snow-on-snow-flickr-jenny-downing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/snow-on-snow-flickr-jenny-downing.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/snow-on-snow-flickr-jenny-downing-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/snow-on-snow-flickr-jenny-downing-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-164348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow on snow in Geneva, Switzerland, courtesy of jenny downing, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Snow_on_snow_-_Flickr_-_jenny_downing.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last few years, I\u2019ve been reading unappreciated and erased novels by Black artists from the twentieth century. They\u2019ve helped me think about the idea of illegibility\u2014about what the literary world has historically deemed too wild, complex, radical, experimental, or challenging to be included in the precarious and burgeoning Black canon. I\u2019m also interested in why some promising writers give up after only one or two books. What conditions are required to be a writer over a lifetime? Some of these forgotten novels have since been rediscovered, like Nella Larsen\u2019s twenties classics and Fran Ross\u2019s 1974 Black feminist picaresque, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oreo. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Others<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are still fairly unknown, like William Melvin Kelly\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dem<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Willard Savoy\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alien Land<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his only novel, published in 1949, about mixed-race identity and passing. My most recent addition to this \u201cshadow\u201d canon is Alison Mills Newman\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/francisco-alison-mills-newman\/18589759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Francisco<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Originally published by Ishmael Reed\u2019s press in 1974, it\u2019s a California road-trip story about a Black woman artist, musician, and actress whose husband, the eponymous Francisco, is a Black indie filmmaker. Reading it, I can see how it rubs against that era\u2019s prescribed notions of uplift, chastity, and even Black feminism in its celebration of Black love, sensuality, and joy. It doesn\u2019t deal in the familiar tropes of trauma or alienation, and the female narrator is enthralled by her male lover at a time when narratives about Black men as absent or as abusers were more palatable to the mainstream. Thanks to New Directions, who reissued the book a couple weeks ago, it\u2019s found its way back into the world in time for the author herself to experience its discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Danzy Senna<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read Danzy Senna on Robert Plunket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/26\/who-was-robert-plunket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The career of the filmmaker\/playwright\/novelist\/actor Bill Gunn serves as both a cautionary tale about the racial and aesthetic narrow-mindedness of the American film industry and a still-visible signal flare to artists interested in pushing beyond conventional forms. His best known work, <i>Ganja &amp; Hess<\/i>, which he wrote and directed, is a Black vampire movie with hints of Cassavetes and Jodorowsky, a rough-hewn, hallucinatory freak-out that lodges itself deep in your subconscious. It\u2019s now considered a classic, but even with his increased recognition in recent years, being a devoted Gunnian requires a good deal of digging. His great soap-opera homage\/parody <i>Personal Problems<\/i>, a collaboration with Ishmael Reed and a murderer\u2019s row of excellent Black actors and musicians shot on early video equipment, is now in wide and official circulation. But his first film, <i>Stop!<\/i>, finished in 1970 but never released by Warner Brothers, requires luck and persistence to see. Having finally tracked it down this month in a fuzzy but perfectly watchable dub online, I can say it&#8217;s worth the effort. An improbable anticipation of <i>The Shining<\/i> blended with the free-flowing sexual gamesmanship of Nicolas Roeg\u2019s then-contemporary <i>Performance<\/i>, <i>Stop! <\/i>would have been only the second released Hollywood film by a Black director, and surely the strangest for a long time to come. In its startling mix of genres and frank, often sinister sex scenes, it belongs in a dim, curious video store aisle of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Gunn\u2019s 1981 novel, <i>Rhinestone Sharecropping<\/i>, which seems to be as deeply out of print as a book can be, miraculously became available to check out in the Brooklyn Public Library system a couple of weeks ago, after a hold request so interminable and ambiguous that I had begun to doubt the book even existed. But it does! Much of it is a roman \u00e0 clef following a Gunn-like character\u2019s experience working on a script for a famous football player\u2019s biopic\u2014a clear stand-in for Gunn\u2019s ill-fated real-life work on <i>The Greatest<\/i>, a Muhammad Ali movie (starring Muhammad Ali!) for which Gunn was denied writing credit. The novel delivers blistering epigrammatic truths about how Hollywood treats artists, and Black artists in particular. \u201cFear is the gin we are weaned on,\u201d he writes. \u201cOur talent is sustained on a steady diet of terror, even in death. We have visions of being turned out of the graveyard if the order is given and the check is stopped. It is with us in our dreams.\u201d At one point, one racist producer asks another, \u201cWhat kind of white star you gonna get for a Black movie? \u2026 Lassie?\u201d prompting the unforgettable response: \u201cIs Lassie white?!\u201d It seems like the WGA strike would be a great time to scoop this thing up (@McNally Editions? @NYRB?) and unleash it on the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Andrew Martin<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read Andrew Martin on opera <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/05\/11\/americans-abroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Alice Mills Newman\u2019s Francisco and Bill Gunn\u2019s Rhinestone 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