Little Devil in America

Little Devil in America

AngličtinaMěkká vazba
Abdurraqib, Hanif
Penguin Books Ltd
EAN: 9780141995793
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Předpokládané dodání v pátek, 26. dubna 2024
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**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**

Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize
Winner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Shortlisted for the National Book Award

'Gorgeous' - Brit Bennett
'Pure genius' - Jacqueline Woodson
'One of the most dynamic books I have ever read' - Clint Smith

At the March on Washington, Josephine Baker reflected on her life and her legacy. She had spent decades as one of the most successful entertainers in the world, but, she told the crowd, "I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too". Inspired by these words, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a stirring meditation on Black performance in the modern age, in which culture, history and his own lived experience collide.

With sharp insight, humour and heart, Abdurraqib explores a sequence of iconic and intimate performances that take him from mid-century Paris to the moon -- and back down again, to a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. Each one, he shows, has layers of resonance across Black and white cultures, the politics of American empire, and his own personal history of love and grief -- whether it's the twenty-seven seconds of 'Gimme Shelter' in which Merry Clayton sings, or the magnificent hours of Aretha Franklin's homegoing; Beyoncé's Super Bowl show or a schoolyard fistfight; Dave Chapelle's skits or a game of spades among friends.

EAN 9780141995793
ISBN 0141995793
Typ produktu Měkká vazba
Vydavatel Penguin Books Ltd
Datum vydání 24. března 2022
Stránky 320
Jazyk English
Rozměry 198 x 129 x 18
Země United Kingdom
Autoři Abdurraqib, Hanif