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A Little Devil in America - In Praise of Black Performance (Paperback)
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A Little Devil in America - In Praise of Black Performance (Paperback)
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Loot Price R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
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**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List** Winner
of the Gordon Burn Prize Winner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal
for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award Finalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel Award for
the Art of the Essay Shortlisted for the National Book Award
'Gorgeous' - Brit Bennett 'Pure genius' - Jacqueline Woodson 'One
of the most dynamic books I have ever read' - Clint Smith At the
March on Washington, Josephine Baker reflected on her life and her
legacy. She had spent decades as one of the most successful
entertainers in the world, but, she told the crowd, "I was a devil
in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too".
Inspired by these words, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a stirring
meditation on Black performance in the modern age, in which
culture, history and his own lived experience collide. With sharp
insight, humour and heart, Abdurraqib explores a sequence of iconic
and intimate performances that take him from mid-century Paris to
the moon -- and back down again, to a cramped living room in
Columbus, Ohio. Each one, he shows, has layers of resonance across
Black and white cultures, the politics of American empire, and his
own personal history of love and grief -- whether it's the
twenty-seven seconds of 'Gimme Shelter' in which Merry Clayton
sings, or the magnificent hours of Aretha Franklin's homegoing;
Beyonce's Super Bowl show or a schoolyard fistfight; Dave
Chapelle's skits or a game of spades among friends.
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