Brown Sugar
A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
This rich and diverse collection of Black erotica brings together eighteen original short stories by America’s premier Black authors—Sapphire, Natasha Tarpley, Leone Ross, Pamela Sneed, and many more.
The stories showcased in this collection cover the full spectrum of Black experience and identity as they reveal sexuality, sensuality, and romance in all their forms. Steamy, playful, and romantic, this joyous anthology embraces the ardor and passion of Black love and desire. Featuring both well-established authors and promising new writers, this one-of-a-kind collection represents the past, present, and future of Black literature at its pleasurable and outrageous best.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"In Brown Sugar we're here to represent, to show the real souls of black folk, our own particular ardor and passion." So writes Taylor, a longtime publishing professional and coauthor of Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books, in her introduction to this stylish anthology of original black erotica. Nineteen authors (including Taylor) contribute stories; none are literary superstars and many are relatively obscure, but a few will be familiar to readers of Af-Am lit, particularly novelist R.M. Johnson (The Harris Men) and poet Sapphire (American Dreams; Push). The stories span the spectrum of sexuality, from straight (the majority) to gay (Reginald Harris's "The Dream"; Pamela Sneed's poem, "Peeping Tom") to gender-bending , with a smidgen of S&M tossed in. None of the entries are pornographic, though graphic depictions of sex abound. The best of the stories, like Diane Patrick's "Never Say Never," explore the emotional as well as sexual aspects of the erotic; in this lively tale that blends humor and high spirits with genuine warmth, Patrick blind-dates a shorter (white) man and in so doing learns more about her own humanity. Just so, readers may learn more about themselves as they explore the erotic imaginations at work in this book, not the first collection of black erotica (e.g., Reginald Martin's Dark Eros, 1997) but one that is particularly intelligent, varied--and sexy.
