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I am fully okay to day on the street. We are going to be joined by the Award Winning jamaican writer mol, on james. You can be part of our conversation as well via you chief. Were going to be talking about the dark style trilogy, his work and writing fantasy, let you chat with africans in it ah mile. And james, welcome back to the theme is when a little while i get to see welcome. Ah, thanks for having me. Its great to be back. I can see a couple of your books in the background, your se sick. So now i am i on shot marlyn that still publishes will see your work unsafe act. Now its, its, its not for me today not getting by now. I know there is a situation where they dont get themselves. I think so, you know, i was looking at some fallen off of that some of the mix reviews that came out last week in the u. K. And one thing its really interesting is there is still a resistance to non white writing that does, that doesnt right to the white gears. Yeah. Its, im writing in english, but im not playing by the queens rules. I, were doing what we do. I mean, its bad enough that were using this language, but you know, were subverting it. Were thing by our rules, redoing things that were not supposed to do. We do things like not distinguishing between a past tense and present tense of the verb. You know, well of speakers do it to make an pattern. Speakers do it. Nigerian pigeon speakers do it. Who doesnt do it . Are stodgy, british lit establishments. So there is still, there are still, i can have a resistance for literature that doesnt go out of its way to meet a certain kind of reader on their terms. Im going to take us back an audience back to august the 2015. And that was when you a long list it for the moment book, a prize, and somehow miraculously, you claim to physically come in to ask you to in washington dc. They end of that show. This is when i osteen your writing. What right now i am writing, what am i doing . I am writing. Im trying to write a novel that plays on african mits and mythologies in. So im actually going, speaking of comics, im going to total geek offense. A chart required to have got posted says that i have a whole room for a film. 1 i mean, you should do it to an extent with each novel where i can of create a space, assume a feel of me then allow key code. So we have a title yet. No, it does not. Oh, okay, but i am working on hey cass, i know how much i had so much here and was a young and fresh and fat back then 7 years later they mile and 7 years later, no results. No one book to 2 books. So this kink this geeking out that you did as has been french. Lets talk about how you go about creating this different kind of African World that is fantasy full of black people that well, the 1st thing, well, its very easy to simply just grab facts, thus thats not hard. Its, its, well, it used to be harder because most of the, in a lot of the, the history and so on that was written about the continent was written by europeans. And right now those really only serve no purpose that serve really as comic relief. Ah, because was booked her so ridiculous. Ah, but theres a lot of work in a prison day, a contemporary history and an anthropological work. And, you know, gathering of records and gathering of those were its some songs. And where is that a greers all of that . The information is there, thats not enough ad to change how i read. It says that its, its as a change. How i came across that information as a change. My idea that ah, history tolbert grill is of a lower standard than a history. Tolbert historian. Theyre both historians so it wasnt just develop, delving into tons of research and i did as that video suppose her, but it was also changing how i read that research changing how i looked at all of that changing how and you know, i perceive information and so on and so that also was a major part of the, the research process. Learning how to read differently. One of the ways that you ground yourself in the well to create a spy using maps drawing man. So you study to draw maps, i think is the maps in the book is actually your design work of everything. You then send off to a designer. I want to show a couple of these maps and help us understand how they then ground the well that youre writing about his math. Yeah. Well actually they are my design and illustrating work. You know, back in another life i was a designer and an illustrator. I used to do graphic design. I used to even work on sean pauls album covers. I was a lifetime ago. Excuse me. Bracken that humble. Brag. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha. But the problem, the pokers is and then that guy. Yeah. When the publishing was back, when i was a designer, i didnt. So am that nightmare. Yeah. You know, the thing about fantasy is that its very easy when youre writing and imagine world to feel like a tourist in your own book. And a way to get around that is to create a world that youre already living in. And the griffin able maps is maps to do. This interesting thing did define you, and then it confine you and the confine is actually good. Because you feel as if youre bouncing against a real world, i cant just have a character go from north the south in a weekend and more because a map says it takes 4 months after the length of the story. And you know, its, its, so its gives me the sense that im writing about an actual place. So i drew some maps that i started writing and the maps inspired to writing. But then sooner, lou, after that the writing starts to inspire to maps. And theres this ongoing thing going, you know, that, that continues, but yeah, it was, it was off on talk about getting out. That was a lot of fun to do. Although i had to re teach myself photoshop and all these things, which i havent had in years, you did a good job, congratulations. He ranked the birth and design them maps. All right, so i want you to meet professor juan j morales. He has a question for you on hearing. What strikes me most about marlon jamess work is, is how every chapter surprises us in it delivers these unexpected situations. It gives voice to overlook people. The characters are beautiful. They are tragic. And the monsters are just super scary, nightmare fodder, and in the settings are powerfully built with, with all that brick faced storytelling. And it gives countless writers and readers all these new doors to open that remind us that genre, writing is literary. Theres a larger cultural experience to be offered by fantasy sy fi and horror. Im wondering. Can you tell us more about your process using African Languages in the dark start trilogy, while inviting a western audience to read and experience these languages . So naturally. Oh, thats a great, great question. I wanted to almost add to it what he was saying about genre that um, you know, john or a division serves nobody and a problem with, with john or it can define a word. But it can also have people start ranking forms of researcher, which goes against everything goes against human nature. Fantasy ultimately is myth making an hour mit sir important. And we can talk about this later. Well, how this came about because i felt i was mr man with a logical history, but now i am completely not answering the question. So im going to answer the question. I need to answer the question. Yeah, yes its, its, so i wont, its done it at. I mean at, on a claim that i, i know well of because im just starting. But the cool thing about learning a language is you learn the rules 1st. Yeah. And falling to rule, when i say its her fault, learn the rules of languages which i was going to court in depth in the book. But i know i wanted to use as a base in which to then you english, i learned and things like hold where to place a verb if, when i get that technical um, you know, when i grew up in jamaica, there are a lot of aspects of jamaica path, or that were taught is simply inferior english. I always thought to fight at, i dont say, went nobody whence in jamaican english, him did go, or he soon go or he can go or he wont go hell even say he going go. And ive always thought of that as what i was told. Its broken english. Its yeah. Except its not at all. Its one of the, its another fantastic example of something that even a slave trade couldnt kill the way in which we come to the middle and end of a sentence. The way that for us action is always active. And when i talk about slavery and i talk about atrocities done to us, i frequently alma, the only one, we frequently sneak in the present tense and doesnt necessarily mean were living in trauma so much as temporality is a different thing for us. Yeah. Yes. President s, you choose a different its, its, it is actually different than is where they come across. A lot of criticism is always that, that they didnt find a way to get into that as well. And writing blackly what can i tell you . Why and so its a different way and i think thats what i drew from you. More than did you, did you just put up a memory of me spending my entire child had telling my dad you have to say turn off the light dad . Not off the light, its like show him off the light aligned tie. It was always off the night. And now i can, i like this conversation to help me really appreciate the richness of language. It doesnt have to know that reaches talking, but they also turn off into a verbal yeah, america we, we turn done into over move, you know, dont know. Yeah. And i so the latest installment of the doubt style trinity is moon, which spider king in a sentence. Tell us what its about. And then read are set paragraph because a great to make them write a one said the best fletcher can be read aloud. Under hoots at my window, i knew which i could get moved, which spader k a y can i say, while the villains of the 1st . What gets to tell her story, and man, is it different . Ah, you know, if you have read black lippard read all of you may have had some attachment to some of the characters you probably are going to regret that. Im. So i want to read a sec very quick section of bo in and in this section sagal on becomes aware of her impact in the world. Ah, which if youre a fan of, if youre if read leopard, read well, you probably didnt even know she did this. She didnt know either until such. She was told. So this is her more women come into the room as it get lighter and still more women. Or perhaps i was seeing them all for the 1st time. You dont remember me, one of them say she were a band are on the eyes that her husband take away from her after you write the wrong done to me, the woman teach me how to see with my fingers, my ears and men. No. As she say, as she paint clay on my skin with grace, you dont know me for then i was no woman so yet another i called each of those women, my sisters since then you remember us . The girls kidnapped to not caravan headed to morrow banga. There was taken a so to see, to sell us off as wife went concubines, we was 7 and 8 that night you swooped down on the roof was the night. I know the gods didnt forget us. Every woman in the room touched by the moon, which stepped forward, the woman, se, an ever woman in the room. Look at me and approach the bed and surround it. Theyre part of the room right up to the doorway and still more was outside waiting to squeeze themselves in a girl worm through them to touch me and say they couldnt move my mother so to send me moon, which still slang through the trees, say another no plain to woman. Oh, dear, righting wrongs. Plenty in north and south seeing moon, which she is me. Thank you right on. Thats beautiful. The well thank you creating the the now which is the create the kite as a sexy they. They are sensual, sexy beings, and something really jumped out at me, is that they all, i want to say quick height as they are gender fluid. And there is a whole back story about why and how and humor around that. And its just a very natural evolution. Now, if people only know africa from 2022 than they are going to think that, then you ob, subverting what many african countries now feel about gender fluidity. Right . But what youre doing is we claim inc and africa from before colonial times. Tell us more. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. And i didnt set, oh, its certainly not with black robert to write in his in queer. I dont think i surrender a something queer, a positive. I was just following the research, and it was a research that led to all of that. You know . I remember on, you know, on facebook, looked a novelist, lola, somewhat as a novice dollars shine. Im pronouncing her name wrong. Im pretty sure am. Im, you know, if im or if, if nigeria, you know, if africa would ever be ready for queerness and queer rights and so on. And she said, africa was born ready until a bunch of tv preachers told them that they werent. And thats what ive come to realize, you know, from what ive heard from my friends who are writers, everybody knew the 2 aunts dont know the st. And is want to know that they werent aunts and they werent sisters. Everybody knew, and that while the great things that have that we have absorb another thing that survived colonialism that survived, slavery is the ability for black communities to absorb the other. So set it up, hes the tone quare, but he oh ok where, you know hes, hes kind of miss up in the head but hes oh, or miss up in the head. He is that weve, weve always done that. Its a very is one that one of the very unique aspects of boat africa, nis and blackness. And were come from is our ability to widen community. And i didnt realize that until, you know, i did the research that there were always made space. There are, there are bands of soldiers and warriors in, in, in an audio ancient african societies ever wanted you to again, because thats how you gain a repetition that your virgin bread will be protected, traveling with us. Because whos going to try anything. We dont go for that. Its, its, its, its, its been there. Her, i mean, everybody knew, you know, were protecting virgin cargo. You call those guys and, and theres always been any and youve read and more. Its the 5 read is the more i found an added an honest a didnt go to the research looking for validation as certain, think out that didnt think i was going to find it in the past. And thats where i found it. I have some questions for you from our audience. Hell watching right now and let me start with wavy tay. I hope you get a movie or show deal. I would love to see his books come to night noon. Tell us about new these. Tell us about show dales whats going on. Send a tweet to michael the jordan is actually there working there. Yeah. So michael, michael, Michaels Company bought their rights for years ago. Of course everything was everything covered added 2 years to including this. Yeah. So were moving, were moving, were trying to move full speed ahead. Were trying to reagan or momentum, but you know, where were really working on a script. We have some very talented people already attached to developing. The 1st of, of, you know, the 3, but yeah, its still, its still in production. Its still, you know, full speed ahead of time. Lines are deadlines yet, but im, were getting her. All right, this, this other question, friends, furniture. We got lots, what im the, im going to share this on because this is from the new c rincon alba. I am teaching a brief history of 7 killings at n, y year. One of balanced previous books for a caribbean music class. And i was wondering if marlin has any tips and how to engage novels in a classroom setting who, how to india. I asked me for lit teacher tips. Yes. How you are creative, right . A teacher. So what i do, i think one of the things i do with novel sometimes is i tried to also link them would source material on that. If were going to talk about bob marley that maybe we should listen to somebody, or maybe we should also spend some time and talking about lyrics or to poetics of but you know, of reggae music and i, and also, you know, i love using film. What im teaching list, or everybody should watch rockers. How do they come . Yes, im and rockers and so on that that what you want to do is, is i said, if you dont just want to read a book, you want to smell it. You want to taste it. You wanna, you want the sun. Do you want to sun to burn down on your back . Nice new fan i you want . Yeah, yeah. You know, you just want all that sensory detail on the more sensory detail you can bring into that classroom. I think thats going to be a great class. Thank you. I dont think very now theres not, theres not an endorsement of bringing weed to class. I just wanna say that he said like, he may have done it. I will, i would have been fired. I think my sally for rel is a medical psychotherapist and a writer, and she has a question for you all. And he, she is, has a family child of the 18th in the caribbean, diaspora, i find the week that you are doing with we visiting and remembering on the phone, the cheese and the history for this year slavery. So powerful and important. Mostly because as a therapist, i knew that when we cannot remember who we really are and what really lies behind the things that we do, we end up compels to repeat them. And so my question for you is do you have hope . What hope do you have for a while to impact your book and beyond . Of course, as many people are possible dying, cookies and reading and what impact to you and your writing, right. Have i think ive 2 answers to that. One is i hope it encourages more people to write books like these Toni Morrison says she wrote, you know, the books she wanted to read. And i dont think, i think one reason why it took me this long to write these books is because i never thought that these books could have been possible, even if i were to write them. And i, thats one thing. I do hope that im more and more people more and more writers. Right. You know, rick recognized that the mythologies just lurking right behind them are rich for, you know, for their own, you know, for their own literature. And in terms of, you know, or read ers, i, you know, i just, i hope that on the, the, the mediums that we have that we can empower us whether its even twitter or social media or so on that we use more because one things ive realized and youre going to realize it if youre writing a carbon novel, an african novela, native american novel, that primarily speaks in a voice that you know is in your head is that. 6 the audience you will find an audience is always been there and waiting and ready to hear you. That doesnt the necessarily, the establishment is it doesnt mean necessarily the Publishing Industry on the stands you are so on. So the, the, the, you know, being in touch with those readers. Yes. Do that read it, air may. And all of that becomes really, really important. Because when i, you know, when i, when i come across readers, there is such a, there feels a sense of familiarity with the work they see, such as, as of connection that um sometimes surprised me because sometimes i go through all the sort of gatekeepers on to get to them and, and, and it makes me think sometimes that maybe im not writing to write things or so on. And i can imagine that youre young writers out there who really do wonder if anybody wants to hear their voice and answers. Yes, they do. I watched a lecture that you did a few years ago, and it was a token like to say its of a prestigious lecture to do. And you took about fancy literature. You talk about your work and, and, and im not to other fantasy literature at the time. There was, there was a moment that just cracked me up because i have, this is sort of ju heritage where i studied english literature. But im african. So i have this like, how do i get my african cannon and i understand english teacher at the same time, i is a mishmash. And you mentioned the hoping im just gonna show you the picture here. And i feel like i feel like what we know currently as fantasy fiction and literature triggered you into writing the dark style trilogy. Because there is not a single black brown person of color on that poster it. So now when your books are made into me, these young people, wherever they are around the world, they can have a very different vision, a fantasy wells. Yeah, because i think there is still this idea that fantasies ultimately are medieval historical novel with merlin in it. Or, you know, with, with which is and goblins and dragons. Um it a mythological history. And again, i love, i love merlin as much as anybody else. I am here for king arthur. Im here for the green knight and, and i let my joggers and goblins i, my grooms fairytales, us all well and good. Theres something to be said though for constantly reading literature where nobody like you is in it. Right . Yeah, and, and it, it creates a sort of december bodied relationship to work that out. And james is a white person. Im going to leave it there. I let me share who any. Thank everybody, all on, on my laptop. I mean, which spite a king by modern james currently available, youve heard the writer, you hear where hes coming from. The book is available right now. Thank you to you ye cheap as ye said tamala, we are so inspired that makes the 2 of us phoenix time. Thanks. Mullin. Ah a 3 year investigation into the pro gun lobby. Youve been in a really dangerous revealeth secrets. 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