![]() These young women have become pioneers of the Millennial Natural Hair Movement, an expanding and informed counterculture responding to painful trends that date back to the early twentieth century. Social media and video-based tutorials have influenced many Millennial women to embrace natural representations of their ethnic hair. My interdisciplinary work concentrates on the Ebony woman, Gen-X leaning Millennials, and our hair. My wife in her art has called them a counterculture: She also writes like my wife does with long, flowing sentences and wry observations…Ī post shared by Thoth, Ma'at & Husky Familiar on at 9:18pm PDT of #Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, a Gen-Xer from Nigeria who is an astonishing writer. She's a #naturalhair #counterculture activist too. ![]() No wonder my wife loves the hero of this book so much. Maybe they’ll update it and make her a vlogger on YouTube instead? Part of my wife’s enthusiasm for the novel was because the character was also part of the online “natural hair community,” black and mixed race women who share YouTube tutorials about methods for giving up straightening their hair with destructive chemicals and switching to natural styles and products instead. I wonder how they’ll depict blogging in the film. So real life inspires blogging, blogging inspires a novel - the highlights of which are the blog posts in it - which in turn inspires a movie. The movie rights have, of course, been acquired, with Lupita Nyong’o and Brad Pitt starring. #literature #culture #Africa #England #UnitedStatesĪ post shared by Thoth, Ma'at & Husky Familiar on at 7:27pm PDT of #Americanah, a knock-you-on-your-ass great novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. "What I've noticed being here is that many #English people are in awe of #America but also deeply resent it," Obinze said. Recently my wife pushed on me her newest obsession, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Instead of banging on Hollywood’s front door, a better approach is to go in the back by publishing popular conservative fiction and then turning those books into films. The conservative right brain has woken up from its enchanted sleep and it is thriving. It is a practical reality - and a fortunate one for us, since there are hundreds if not thousands of conservative and libertarian writers out there today producing politically themed fiction. ![]() Fiction therefore is and will remain the beating heart of the new counterculture. In short, conservatives should remember that mainstream popular culture is still largely driven by books. A hundred years from now, moreover, these classic books will still be read all over the world in dozens of languages when the films on which they are based are long forgotten or superseded by new forms of entertainment. Books engage the reader much more deeply, at a level of identification with the characters and plot that can instruct the soul and edify the mind. Even at their best, movies are essentially cartoons and their effects are superficial and fleeting. Yet both of these successful movie franchises ultimately pale in comparison with the impact of the books. Lewis both produced big-budget movies that reached millions of people with what most of us would probably agree is a subtly conservative message. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books by C. But as a vehicle for political ideas and moral lessons, movies are simplistic and crude compared with the novels on which many are based. Sure, a successful Hollywood movie can have a major impact. To hear some conservatives talk you’d think movies were the Holy Grail, the golden passkey to the collective unconscious. I agree this is very important, but it requires a massive investment of capital, and more to the point, I think people on the right are over-impressed with the power of film. What about Hollywood? Many conservatives talk about the need to get into movie production. I appreciated your recent manifesto, “ Let Your Right Brain Run Free,” at National Review and really only took mild issue with what seemed to me your overemphasis on the novel and pooh-poohing of film’s greater power to hypnotize viewers: I can’t wait to get to know more of the Liberty Island writers and continue collaborations.
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