Out of The Sun
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African independence
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Afua Hirsch
Angelo Soliman
Author_Esi Edugyan
Black art history
black ghost stories
Black history Canada
Black Like Me
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David Olusoga
Dido Belle
District 9
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Gabrielle Bellot
Isabel Wilkerson
Johny Pitts
Kehinde Wiley
Mary Beard
Massey lectures
Morgan Jerkins
Pate Island
Rachel Dolezal
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Roxane Gay
Saidiya Hartman
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Washington Black
Yasuke the samurai
Zambian space program
Product details
- ISBN 9781788169912
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Esi Edugyan's novel Washington Black was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and The Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her previous novel, Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize and the Orange Prize.
