![]() ![]() ![]() Hiram Walker is a slave on a plantation in Virginia. The Water Dancer is a first-person narrative with a frisson of the fantastic. But I would be remiss if I didn’t knowledge my peculiar positionality, not only in terms of my race but also the fact that I am Canadian, and therefore I’m reading this book as an outsider to the history it inhabits. I do have an opinion, of course, and that is what this review is about. ![]() I finally found a review by Monica Reeds, and so I recommend you check that out (and like it on Goodreads!). Never has it been more starkly evident to me that we need to boost and promote the voices of book reviewers of colour. Unforunately, as I browsed reviews of The Water Dancer on Goodreads, I was dismayed to see that the majority of them are from white people (mostly judging by avatar), and particularly white women. This is a book by a Black man about slavery in the United States, and I wanted to open this review by boosting the thoughts of Black reviewers-after all, their take on this book is going to be more salient than the opinion of a white woman like me. ![]()
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