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Bluff by Danez Smith review – ‘Afropessimism’ as an artform

Danez Smith: ‘sceptical of the utopia they once yearned for’.

2024-08-27  876  中等

If Smith’s Forward prize-winning collection Don’t Call Us Dead (2018) imagined a world in which Black people were free and safe from state violence and white supremacy, Bluff explores what happens when you wake up from that dream. Smith is now sceptical of the world they once yearned for, in i’m not bold, i’m fucking traumatized asking: “is the nigga who raped me gonna be in a thug mansion too?”

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