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Out of The Sun
Esi Edugyan
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Beschreibung
History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings?
As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. In five wide-ranging essays, written with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century.
With calm, piercing intelligence, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future.
Rezensionen
Poignant and political, Edugyan enjoys taking her readers where they are least expecting to go . . . shines a light on the present as well as the past.
Edugyan is a magical writer
Exquisite
A pacey yet thoughtful exploration of freedom, and our moral compulsion to act
Stunning ... An enlightening, multifaceted and thoroughly engrossing look at what blackness means and has meant through the centuries
A remarkable collection of essays on representation, race, identity and history. Edugyan must now be counted as one of the finest essayists of her generation, as well as one of the best novelists
A remarkable collection of essays on representation, race, identity and history. Not surprisingly, <i>Out of the Sun</i> is rich in stories, memory and the warmth of human experience ... gripping ... There are insights, ironies and nuances on every page: Edugyan must now be counted as one of the finest essayists of her generation, as well as one of the best novelists
<b>Praise for Esi Edugyan:</b> Wondrous ... gripping ... vivid and captivating
A towering achievement . . . Edugyan is one of our sharpest and deepest writers
Strong, beautiful and beguiling
Magnificent and strikingly visual prose
In its breadth, beauty and candour, this is a beguiling collection. And if, after reading it you leave with more questions than you started - which might be a complaint in a lesser book - then I suspect it has achieved its aim
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Black art history, afrofuturism, Rachel Dolezal, Washington Black, Black history Canada, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Yasuke the samurai, Johny Pitts, District 9, Dido Belle, Massey lectures, black ghost stories, Kehinde Wiley, Zambian space program, Saidiya Hartman, Afua Hirsch, African independence, Angelo Soliman, Isabel Wilkerson, Black Like Me, Pate Island, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gabrielle Bellot, David Olusoga, Mary Beard, Morgan Jerkins