The Strangers
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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. 'Thrilling and ingenious,
propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book'
Bernardine Evaristo'Luminous and extraordinary... This book will be
referenced for years to come' Lemn SissayIn 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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Penguin Books Ltd ,
Ekow Eshun
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Penguin Books Ltd,
Ekow Eshun
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