Jul 6, 2024
Oreo by Fran Ross
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Oreo by Fran Ross
Literally just finished Oreo (Fran Ross) in like 7 hours, I’ve never read a book so fast in my life. I’m obsessed with it.
On Fran Ross's postmodern picaresque novel Oreo
On Fran Ross’s postmodern picaresque novel Oreo
Fran Ross’s 1974 novel Oreo is an overlooked masterpiece of postmodern literature, a delicious satire of the contemporary world that riffs on race, identity, patriarchy, and so much more. Oreo is a pollyglossic picaresque, a metatextual maze of language games, raps and skits, dinner menus and vaudeville routines. Oreo’s rush of language is exuberant, a joyful metatextual howl that made me laugh…
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Black Authors🥂
(Well minus Alice Hoffman but that’s my book😂😂)
Fortunately, because of her constant bullshit, she was often disguised as an adult.
Oreo. Fran Ross
On Fran Ross's postmodern picaresque novel Oreo
On Fran Ross’s postmodern picaresque novel Oreo
Fran Ross’s 1974 novel Oreo is an overlooked masterpiece of postmodern literature, a delicious satire of the contemporary world that riffs on race, identity, patriarchy, and so much more. Oreo is a pollyglossic picaresque, a metatextual maze of language games, raps and skits, dinner menus and vaudeville routines. Oreo’srush of language is exuberant, a joyful metatextual howl that made me laugh…
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Oreo/Orange (Books acquired, 13 July 2020)
Oreo/Orange (Books acquired, 13 July 2020)
I’m like 50 pages from the end of Fran Ross’s 1974 Oreo and I simply don’t understand how this novel is so erased or ignored in most discussions of postmodern classics. (It could be ignorance—mine for sure—or erasure, or sure, structural racism in publishing and literary criticism—I mean, I feel like every list that compels someone to read Thomas Pynchon and Kathy Acker and John Barth and…
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Oreo was sad but not too. She felt about it as she would if someone told her that Walter Cronkite had said his last "Febewary" or that a fine old character actor she had thought for years was dead was dead.
oreo on her father's death in fran ross, oreo (1974)