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1) Swing Time is a 2016 novel by Zadie Smith that moves between London and West Africa following the friendship of two brown girls who dream of being dancers. 2) One girl, Tracey, has talent and makes it into the chorus line but struggles with adult life. The other leaves their old neighborhood to travel the world as an assistant to a famous singer, observing the lives of the one percent. 3) The story later moves to West Africa where issues of diaspora, inequality, and the risks people take to escape into different futures are explored, all relating back to the origins of inequality and how people dance to the music of time.
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2) The novel follows the childhood friendship of two brown girls who dream of being dancers, though only one has talent, as they come of age in London and later travel separately.
3) One girl, Tracey, makes it into the chorus line but struggles with adult life while the other leaves their old neighborhood to travel the world as an assistant to a famous singer, observing the lives of the one percent but also witnessing inequality in West Africa on philanthropic trips seeking roots.
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Two brown girls from London dream of being dancers, but only Tracey has talent. They have a close childhood friendship that ends in their early twenties. Tracey makes it as a chorus dancer but struggles with adult life. Her former friend leaves their old neighborhood to travel the world as an assistant to famous singer Aimee, observing the lives of the one percent. When Aimee develops philanthropic ambitions in West Africa, the story follows them there, exploring the roots of inequality through the experiences of diaspora tourists, young men risking their lives to escape, and women dancing just like Tracey.
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2) The novel follows the childhood friendship of two brown girls who dream of being dancers, though only one has talent, as they come of age in London and later travel separately.
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the number of mainstream blackfemale rap ardsts decreased drasdcally. In fact, by 2005, the Grammy Awards had
eliminated the award for best female rap ardst, due to the paucity of nominees.^
Simultaneously, hip-hop Kterature, known alternately as "street Ht," "ghetto ut,"
and "Ut hop," written by black women and marketed to young women and girls from
ages thirteen to thirty, exploded; ddes like Nikki Turner's A Hustler's Wife, sell yearly
in the hundreds of thousands (Marshall, Staples, and Gibson 28). It is not coinci-
dental that the entrepreneurial spirit that has characterized black men's rise to fame
in hip hop has been adopted by female street novelists, many of whom self-publish
their gritty urban tales. The rapid explosion of black female street-lit authors is a
cultural and literary phenomenon that demands the attendon of scholars who are
interested in the ways that black women use literature to ardculate black female
subjecdvity. It stands to reason, then, that if we want to locate narradves of women's
Mves in the hip-hop generadon, we must turn to hip hop's literature.
Sapphire's 1996 novel Push draws on the "gritty urban street chronicles" of hip-
hop aesthedcs to tell the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones, a teenager coming of
age in what William Jelani Cobb refers to as the golden era of hip hop, 1984 to 1992.^
This text predates the rise of hip-hop or street literature by several years.-̂ Sapphire's
effort to de Push, through implicit and explicit textual allusions, to the work of Toni
Morrison, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, and Pat Parker connects these seemingly
divergent "high vs. low art" approaches to black women's storytelling. Crides have
tended to ascribe literary value to texts based on their proximity to the aesthedc
qualides of works by more canonical authors, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni
Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gayl Jones. Because these novelists have all drawn heavily
on blues and jazz aesthedcs in constructing their novels, literary crides idendfied
the blues and jazz as a significant unifying characterisdc of the African American
women's literary tradidon."^ This has tended to mean that African American literary
texts, pardcularly those of black women, must be beholden to the literary nexus of
jazz and the blues if they want to be considered "serious" literature.
Push acts as a bridge text between earlier generadons of black women's wridng
and the urban street dramas that predominate today. Sapphire's invocadon of hip hop
is an early portrait of a hip-hop aesthedc in prose form that offers relevance while
avoiding the pitfalls of presendsm. Further, the novel offers a cridcal model for
the ways in which hip-hop texts (might) engage with their literary forebears. Push
demonstrates the need for literary works to grapple with the polidcs, poedcs, and
aesthedcs.
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