The Dark Delight Of Being Strange

Download or read book The Dark Delight of Being Strange written by James B. Haile III and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-24 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life. In a series of stories and essays, James B. Haile, III, traces how Black speculative fiction responds to enslavement, racism, colonialism, and capitalism and how it reveals a life beyond social and political alienation. He reenvisions Black technologies of freedom through Henry Box Brown’s famed escape from slavery in a wooden crate, fashions an anticolonial “hollow earth theory” from the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, and considers the octopus and its ability to camouflage itself as a model for Black survival strategies, among others. Looking at Black life through the lens of speculative fiction, this book transports readers to alternative worlds and spaces while remaining squarely rooted in present-day struggles. In so doing, it rethinks historical and contemporary Black experiences as well as figures such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Dumas, and Toni Morrison. Offering new ways to grasp the meanings and implications of Black freedom, The Dark Delight of Being Strange invites us to reimagine history and memory, time and space, our identities and ourselves.

Download or read book Opportunity written by Elmer Anderson Carter and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Caroling Dusk written by Countee Cullen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For this anthology, Cullen selected the work of thirty-eight poets to, as he put it, "bring together a miscellany of deeply appreciated but scattered verse." The collection includes Paul Laurence Dunbar, often credited as the first Black poet to make a deep and lasting impression on the literary world; James Weldon Johnson, the author of what is referred to now as the Black National Anthem; W. E. B. Du Bois; Jessie Faucet; Sterling A. Brown; Arna Bontemps; Langston Hughes and Cullen's own work. The poets were all known within the literary world and widely published. Each poem is accompanied by autobiographical notes, with the exception of three. The decorations in this book are by African American painter and graphic artist, Aaron Douglas"--J. Willard Marriott Library blog, viewed June 3, 2022.

Download or read book Home to Harlem written by Claude McKay and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue

Download or read book The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. written by Benjamin Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The young duke. Count Alarcos written by Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The young duke. Count Alarcos written by Benjamin Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: