Black Kettle: Novellas Connected
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Picking up where the fragmented narrative of Momentitiousness left off, Black Kettle explores the many manifestations of hope and deceit in the human experience. This is a novella collection--sweet, sensual, sadistic, and sullen--where independently complete stories burst forth with playful vigor, featuring heroes and antiheroes alike.
Using the true story of Black Kettle--a peaceful Cheyenne Indian chief, who was gruesomely slaughtered in the 1860s--as a metaphorical backdrop, the text builds on the ambivalence inherent in hypocrisy. More than blood and guts, sex and postapocalyptical musing, Black Kettle derives its power from an understanding of both the human mind and the human soul.
In the novella Black Kettle, witness the moments immediately preceding, during, and after two galactic earth-shattering events. In Trayvon, observe young men as they discover the shifting tangents connected by sexuality, love, and family. Finally, in The Nola Trilogy, watch carnal pleasure morph into sentimentality, heartbreak, and eventual rebirth.
Jason Leclerc
Jason Leclerc is an internationally renowned poet, blogger, filmmaker, and political columnist. He stands out amongst a brash generation of cultural critics, as concerned with form as he is with quality storytelling. The author of Momentitiousness, he weaves words with whimsical precision, warmth, and humor.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5**This book was reviewed via Netgalley**Black Kettle, by Jason LeClerc seems less to me a series of novellas, as advertised, and more a series of philosophical discourse that discuss various aspects of humanity, threaded with short stories that are independent of one another, yet are linked in the same time-line. Events that occur to one person in one story will occur to a different set of people, far from the first, or events that happen in a story will be referenced in another story further in the future. Some connections are quite obvious, others less so, and I enjoyed finding the links. The short stories, like the discourse, are commentaries on humanity. I found them all fascinating, with several resonating deeply. This is truly a book to reread many times in order to get the full effect.‘Staring into the Sun' looks at sight and blindness, and how society's collectiveness renders us blind in many ways. It meanders through how the digital age is changing how we see things, and how the invention of written language already has.'Black Kettle’ expresses nicely how we are all beautiful in our seemingly flawed natures… and how we are all alike. This really hit home to the physical anthropologist in me. One thing that my forensics training taught me is that underneath the thin veneer of skin, we are all alike, yet so very different in nature as victim and predator.'Sand Creek’ is the first of the short stories, about a boy who has an accident, and gains an awareness of a land whose time is long past. A part of him always dwells with ghosts, mainly of Native Americans slaughtered at Sand Creek. He is there, along the banks of the creek when a disaster of global proportions happens. This disaster shows up again and again, happening to different people, in different places.These are but the first few of the many stories within. These stories are snippets, offerings if you will, of personal and impersonal destruction. Later stories illustrate, without being aggressive with it, that being different is perfectly fine. If you're gay, that's fine, if you're straight, that's fine, if you're bi, that's fine. However, it doesn't shy away from showing how the close-minded and judgemental react/overreact to race and sexual orientation. These stories are, additionally, a nice commentary on how our individual perceptions shape how we see events, as we see certain events from the point of view of all the major players, and see how the accounts vary. Sometimes the differences are small, but sometimes they are wildly different.???? recommended if you enjoy philosophical books that will make you think.
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