Leila Taylor
Autor de Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul
Obras de Leila Taylor
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
BLM (1)
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 51
- Popularidad
- #311,767
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 2
To start, I would have infinitely preferred this to be an essay collection. There was no coherent cohesive thesis statement, no clear common thread connecting chapter to chapter and we found the structure to be unnecessarily muddled. While Taylor ties together gothic and goth culture somewhat effectively, the thread doesn’t appear until three quarters of the way through the book. However, had they been essays, I feel she would have had time to put forth multiple arguments and wrap them up in a more contained manner.
Additionally, it was clear to all of us that we were not the intended audience for the book as we all lacked a significant amount of background knowledge that Taylor presumes we have in order to follow and comprehend her points. While our members of younger generations knew the pop culture references, we lacked knowledge of how society functioned over the decades that older members of book club knew, but they were unaware of most of the pop culture references.
While I recognize the importance of Darkly as a cultural critique, it reads far more like a masters or doctoral thesis, written for readers already intimately familiar with the subject matter. For the average layperson, I don’t know that I would be able to recommend this book in a similar manner to how I could recommend So You Want to Talk About Race and Me and White Supremacy.… (más)