![]() ![]() Me do it at some point during this conversation. I’m constantly code-switching-you might hear Rone Shavers: Well, if I had to describe myself, ![]() Of African deities are made throughout the book. Angel would often quote renowned Black figures and mention In this interview, we discuss code-switching,Įxperiential writing, language, euphemisms, and Afrofuturism.Įlements of Afrofuturism within Silverfish Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, and he teaches courses inĬreative writing and contemporary literature at The College of Saint Rose in He isįiction and hybrid genre editor at Obsidian: Reviews have appeared in such diverse publications as American Book Review, BOMB,Įlectronic Book Review, Fiction Writers Review, and The Quarterly Conversation. Shavers’ non-fiction essays and essay-length ![]() Magazine, Big Other, Black Warrior Review, PANK, and The Operating System. Together they use each other’s knowledge, consciousness, language, coding, and lack thereof to achieve liberation. The central characters are Angel, a code-switching, artificial intelligence robot, and Clayton, a human “combat associate” whose job is to hunt, kill, and capitalize on “primitives,” those unaccounted-for humans who live outside of the advanced technological realm. Silverfish, by Rone Shavers is an experimental novel that details a slice of life in the dystopian Incorporated States of America: a country much like our own, but one in which the corporatization of culture results in the commodification of human bodies. ![]()
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