Word: eerier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside the city, in villages from Glogovac to Mitrovica to Gnjilane, the scenes are even eerier. Perhaps 19 of every 20 homes along the road have been burned. The majority of the red brick houses have obviously not been hit with bombs from overhead. The exterior walls are blackened from fires that roared from within. If the Serbs torched only dwellings that sheltered K.L.A. members, it was not apparent to neighbors. Gypsies who live in Vucitrn, for example, spray-painted ROMI on their homes to identify themselves as non-Albanians; it has succeeded for at least the dozen still standing...
Outside the context of contemporary art, the present debate surrounding Walker's work elicits even eerier deja-vu in light of the black literary tradition to which Walker owes so much. Over fifty years ago, Richard Wright argued against Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, claiming the book perpetuated stereotypes of blacks as "happy darkies" and minstrels. When asked about this parallel Walker answered, "The black arts community is still really young. We keep bringing up the same themes to trash each other...