Kim; The Story of John
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Far more embracing than contemporary urban tales, Joyner’s stories are gripping snapshots of our corners and our communities. The lives of men and women shaped by the horridly beautiful world around them, both more than and made by their circumstances. The works are dynamic, confrontational, unapologetic, raw, abrasive glimpses into everyday life.
With reflections of sex, soul, and hope, Gee’s characters are vulnerable, manipulating, engaging; the literary expression of life-like experiences. Each page flows with youthful energy; hips, thighs, arms, legs, street corners, domiciles, and refreshing voices of imperfection that display well -rounded humanness unknown in popular literature. Both hip and poignant, Gee Joyner’s tales insightfully prove that contemporary does not mean exhausted and empty. The world must embrace it’s newest and most profound literary genius and American icon.
-Jorel Jenious
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Including three works of diverse artistry, Joyner dissects the American social conscious pertaining to race, gender, and sexual orientation in a way that is palpable to audiences from all walks of life.
In Pipers Gap, a story of role reversal, the reader is shown what a quaint American town would be like if White people were the subordinate minority and Black Americans were the embodiment of all the finer attributes of humankind. Thus, Blacks are depicted as the dominant culture in this tale of power, prejudice, and ethinic preservation.
Black GI Got Tail is a correspondence piece that details an African American soldier's trials and tribulations, as well as culture shock, while defending his country during the Vietnam War. The text is written in letter-form and uses vivid imagery and language to exhibit the unnamed soldier's transformation from homesick teen to beleagured killer.
Lastly, the title story, Kim; the Story of John , is a homoerotic tale that encapsulates the ups and downs of heterosexual men's desires and fantasies come to pass. When"good sex goes bad," the two main characters, Capp and Tawson, war with themselves, attempting to understand the source of their sexual appetites, as well as coming to grips with the fact that they have been sexually victimized at the hands of someone whom they never would have suspected. The line between hetero- and homo- is sexually blurred in this misadventure of college sex romps gone awry.
About the Author
A product of the divisive racial ideologies of the South, Gee Joyner was reared in an upper-class suburban enclave that allowed him to channel his distinct, and often times uncanny perception of American culture, through Man’s first, and most profound medium, the written rhetoric.
Having obtained both a Bachelors and Masters degree in English Literature from the University of Memphis, he has utilized his rhetorical prowess as an empowering tool of social commentary to record the dichotomy and disturbing behaviors indicative of God’s wonderful and complex creation; humanity.
After surviving an attempted murder in 2002 and using his skills in composition to aid and assist troubled juveniles in their quest to overcome the sociopolitical, economical, and violent pitfalls indicative of U.S. culture, Joyner now embarks on a sojourner to infiltrate the literary world by documenting his take on America and the attributes thereof that define what it truly is to be American.
His Masters thesis, White Man’s Fame, Black Man’s Shame: The American Textual Canon’s Negative Depiction of African American’s in Mass Media, resides in the Ned McWherter Library at the University of Memphis and is a document of depth that further explains his literary, social, and cultural convictions. An intellect, scholar, and rhetorical genius, Joyner lies in wait as
In the vein of William Shakespeare, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, Gee Joyner’s works are destined to be blueprints for future writers of substance, and transcendent, and omnipotent content.
-Navar Ero