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In ST s Bookmark This! Podcast: Olivia Ho (left) with Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley, and A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes; and Toh Wen Li (right) with Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton, and The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson.ST PHOTO: OLIVIA HO & TOH WEN LI
PublishedMar 5, 2021, 6:00 pm SGT
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Darkly was an illuminating, insightful read that gave me pause with every sentence. Part personal memoir, part cultural critique, part valuable history lesson, Taylor meditates on the Black experience and gothic culture through a collection of observations on music, film, art, philosophy, architecture, decay, and violence– and through these observations invites us to more closely analyze and question the aesthetics of those dark things we hold dear.
Something that struck me, in particular, is where Taylor asserts that: “goth is above all privileging the imagination over reason, choosing the fanciful over the pragmatic, forgoing restraint for excess,” and she further comments on the privilege of this frivolity and how this ostentatiousness is typically seen as a sentiment only for white people. That Blacks must be ever vigilant (due to the very justified paranoia that they can’t afford distraction) and therefore there’s this sense of gravitas or this sense of pride that th