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Strangers
ISBN: 9780241990698
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Strangers
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 2025
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780241990698
- Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.1 x 2.4 cm
- Weight: 0.282 kg
- Synopsis: 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 nineteenth century actor and playwright. Matthew polar explorer. Frantz psychiatrist and political philosopher. Malcolm activist leader. Justin 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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