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This book is all about sex.
There are lesser themes, too, like the battle between traditional Afro-American writing and postmodernism craziness, the struggle for feminism in literature, and some commentary about how we are constantly inundated with "culture" without realizing its importance or our own values.
But mostly it's about sex. Isshee and Dewayne talk about sex. They make their characters have sex. The metafictional, intertextual, parodic genius of this book is seriously undermined by how much sex is discussed, dissected, and basically just thrown around as a plot tool. I'm not a fan of postmodernism anyway, but this book seemed like a waste of talent.
There are lesser themes, too, like the battle between traditional Afro-American writing and postmodernism craziness, the struggle for feminism in literature, and some commentary about how we are constantly inundated with "culture" without realizing its importance or our own values.
But mostly it's about sex. Isshee and Dewayne talk about sex. They make their characters have sex. The metafictional, intertextual, parodic genius of this book is seriously undermined by how much sex is discussed, dissected, and basically just thrown around as a plot tool. I'm not a fan of postmodernism anyway, but this book seemed like a waste of talent.
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