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The Strangers - Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them (Hardcover)
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The Strangers - Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them (Hardcover)
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List price R530
Loot Price R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
You Save R145 (27%)
To be released on 18 November 2024. You can pre-order this product. We should be able to ship between Monday, 25 Nov 2024 and Monday, 2 Dec 2024.
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Richly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of
five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and
the search for home.
In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider,
foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their
origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who
is not an individual in their own right but the representative of a
type.
What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this
condition? And what happens beneath the mask?
In answer, Ekow Eshun conjures the voices of five very different men.
Ira Aldridge: nineteenth century actor and playwright. Matthew Henson:
polar explorer. Frantz Fanon: psychiatrist and political philosopher.
Malcolm X: activist leader. Justin Fashanu: million-pound footballer.
Each a trailblazer in his field. Each haunted by a sense of isolation
and exile. Each reaching for a better future.
Ekow Eshun tells their stories with breathtaking lyricism and empathy,
capturing both the hostility and the beauty they experienced in the
world. And he locates them within a wider landscape of Black art,
culture, history and politics which stretches from Africa to Europe to
North America and the Caribbean. As he moves through this landscape, he
maps its thematic contours and fault lines, uncovering traces of the
monstrous and the fantastic, of exile and escape, of conflict and
vulnerability, and of the totemic central figure of the stranger.
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