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Danzy Senna’s colour television enters old territory

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Danzy Senna’s colour television enters old territory

Photo illustration: Vulture Jane Gibson is already telling a lie when she realizes that she is suspected of telling another one. The protagonist of Danzy Senna’s latest novel, Color televisionsits in a conference room with a big-time TV guy named Hampton Ford and makes him believe she’s an accomplished writer and tenured professor ready to […]

Subversion of the tragic mulatto in “color television”

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Subversion of the tragic mulatto in “color television”

Early in Color televisionDanzy Senna’s fifth work, the protagonist Jane Gibson completes her own literary work. Jane’s second novel, Nusu-Nusu, Mexico (from Swahili, meaning “partial, in part”) is a sprawling story that connects several generations of mulattoes in the United States from the late 18th to the mid-20th century. This period could be understood as […]