Experimental

Experimental literature refers to written work—usually fiction or poetry—that emphasizes innovation, most especially in technique.

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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine

Lyric Essay and Hybrid Genre

59 books — 26 voters

Cult fiction

539 books — 466 voters

WHERE IS OUR BLACK AVANT GARDE?

30 books — 29 voters

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

experimental writing by women, non-binary writers & men of colour

122 books — 24 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Oulipo,etc.

254 books — 250 voters

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire

The Flagellants by Carlene Hatcher Polite

More Brilliant Than the Sun by Kodwo Eshun

Black is a synonym for the Avant-Garde

31 books — 1 voter

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“ There has been a recent rash of authors and individuals fudging evidence in an attempt to argue that women have a higher sex drive than men. We find it bizarre that someone would want to misrepresent data merely to assert that women are hornier than men. Do those concerned with this difference equate low sex drives with disempowerment? Are their missions to somehow prove that women are super frisky carried out in an effort to empower women? This would be odd, as the belief that women’s sex drive There has been a recent rash of authors and individuals fudging evidence in an attempt to argue that women have a higher sex drive than men. We find it bizarre that someone would want to misrepresent data merely to assert that women are hornier than men. Do those concerned with this difference equate low sex drives with disempowerment? Are their missions to somehow prove that women are super frisky carried out in an effort to empower women? This would be odd, as the belief that women’s sex drives were higher than men’s sex drives used to be a mainstream opinion in Western society—during the Victorian period, an age in which women were clearly disempowered. At this time, women were seen as dominated by their sexuality as they were supposedly more irrational and sensitive—this was such a mainstream opinion that when Freud suggested a core drive behind female self-identity, he settled on a desire to have a penis, and that somehow seemed reasonable to people. (See Sex and Suffrage in Britain by Susan Kent for more information on this.) If the data doesn’t suggest that women have a higher sex drive, and if arguing that women have a higher sex drive doesn’t serve an ideological agenda, why are people so dead set on this idea that women are just as keen on sex—if not more—as male counterparts? In the abovementioned study, female variability in sex drive was found to be much greater than male variability. Hidden by the claim, “men have higher sex drives in general” is the fun reality that, in general, those with the very highest sex drives are women. To put it simply, some studies show that while the average woman has a much lower sex drive than the average man, a woman with a high sex drive has a much higher sex drive than a man with a high sex drive. Perhaps women who exist in the outlier group on this spectrum become so incensed by the normalization of the idea that women have low sex drives they feel driven to twist the facts to argue that all women have higher sex drives than men. “If I feel this high sex drive,” we imagine them reasoning, “it must mean most women secretly feel this high sex drive as well, but are socialized to hide it—I just need the data to show this to the world so they don’t have to be ashamed anymore.” We suppose we can understand this sentiment. It would be very hard to live in a world in which few people believe that someone like you exists and people always prefer to assume that everyone is secretly like them rather than think that they are atypical. ...more ”
― Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist's Guide to Sexuality

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“ [Fantasy] is a constructive aspect of the child's experimental exploration of reality, or his progressive relating of himself to reality, of his trial-and-error attempts to solve his reality problems. ...more ”
― Lauretta Bender

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