The question is this: how do people of color, BIPOC writers and students, contend with the immeasurable pleasure we once found in reading lovecraft and the unnerving realization that we are what he considered monstrous? 2Ĭrucial conversations have been taken up around Lovecraft and his literary legacy, sometimes reductively in response to this quandary. lovecraft, with all my conflicted feelings." 1 If a dedication is meant to be a declaration of gratitude or perhaps an invocation of intimacy, then why the conflict? Eventually a student who is familiar with lovecraft will offer the dilemma familiar to many of us who, much like lavalle, grew up appreciating the worlds lovecraft created. When I assign victor lavalle's novella The Ballad of Black Tom (2016), I ask my students to spend some time on the seemingly straightforward dedication: "For h.
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