Good list! Is Scatman Crothers in The Shining a "magical negro"?https://twitter.com/VerySmartBros/status/900097331374305280 …
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Absolutely yes on Scatman Crothers, also please see http://www.cc.com/video-clips/hzlrwd/key-and-peele-magical-negro-fight …
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Also Bernard Malamud’s “The Angel Levine” (no relation).
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how about Willie Spearmint in The Tenants?
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Yeah, Malamud had a few such characters.
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Pynchon made Malcolm X (pre-conversion) a MN in Gravity's Rainbow.
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Shoot, before that, there was the short story "The Secret Integration," in which the black character is SPOILER literally imaginary
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I remember that book coming with Book of the Month
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Also, An American Dream by Norman Mailer.
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