The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger | 
 enlarge | Author: Cecil Brown
Creator: Henry Louis Jr Gates
Publisher: Frog Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1583942106
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781583942109
ASIN: 1583942106
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
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“If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era America. George Washington—one of his many aliases—is a classic trickster figure, a blend of con artist, deep thinker, and willing object of white women’s sexual fantasies. Fed up with life in racist America, he leaves his rural South for Denmark on a curious quest, determined to discover if there is “any mother fucker in this despiteful world who ever told himself the truth.” In Denmark he spends his days bantering with fellow black expatriates and his nights bedding a series of white women who project their desires on him. Inevitably, these worlds collide, with Washington, aka Anthony Miller, aka Paul Winthrop, aka Mr. Jiveass Nigger, increasingly alienated in a world of opportunists. A return to America after his self-imposed exile promises transformation, but is Washington too far gone? Cecil Brown brings blistering prose, unabashed eroticism, and biting satire to this controversial masterpiece that’s as timely today as when it was first published.
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 Meh December 9, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The last review written "if you want to get an idea of why interracial relationships happen: read this" is so limited in it's view point that I felt the need to write a review. I liked this book very much after reading it for an African American authors in Europe book, but I must feel the need to say that if you're looking for anything other than traditional ideas of Black Nationalism you must find another book. Yes, the book is interesting, "Blacks in Copenhagen? in the 70's? who wuddathunkit. But, this book is painstakingly stereotypical, in that the main character, George Washington *cough* goes to conquer Europe and symbolically does so by having sex with white women. Slightly overly sexual.
If you're looking for books that diverge from and don't merely accept Black Nationalist thought as truth without thinking about it, I suggest reading City of Light, by Cyprus Colter.
 a primer on black and white relations December 11, 2001
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
if you want to get a gist of why interracial relationships happen, read this. also, you will come to figure out why why blacks feel the way they do about whites. one of the best books ever written about blacks in europe...
Brilliant. Not to be missed. August 8, 1997
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This one is a cult classic, a story with messages that resonate long after we've put it down. One of my three or four all-time favorites. Brown has the gift of the storyteller's ear and voice, and an instinctive feel for the trope and rhythm of language. If it were put to music, it would be a combination of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. A cover-to-cover "bright moment"
Brilliant. Just as timely as it was nearly 30 years ago. August 7, 1997
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The re-release of Cecil Brown's 1969 classic is long overdue. The man's insights and vision are haunting in their lyricism, and his messages pack a punch. Cecil Brown is a natural, and I've missed his fiction all these years. Not to be missed
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