Out of The Sun - Essays at the Crossroads of Race (Paperback, Main)

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.

General

Imprint:	Serpent's Tail
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2024
First published:	2021
Authors:	Esi Edugyan
Dimensions:	198 x 129mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-78816-991-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-78816-991-3
Barcode:	9781788169912

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