The Strangers [electronic resource] : : Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
Ekow Eshun2024
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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
In 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...
Main title:
Author:
Ekow Eshun, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House UK, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (422 MB, 15:23:19 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Ekow EshunNarrator: Ako Mitchell
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781405969611
Language:
English
BRN:
524720
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