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Paperback / softback. New. The first ever essay collection from two-time Booker Shortlistee and Chair of the 2023 Booker Prize - now in paperback

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution | 2024 | Mass Market Paperback | 256 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: 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… Read More