The strangers : five extraordinary Black men and the worlds that made them
Eshun, Ekow2024
Book
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:
Eshun, Ekow, author
Imprint:
UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2024.
Collation:
xiii, 383 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780241472026 (hbk)
Dewey class:
305.3889600922920.009296305.38896305.38896 ALD305.388
Local class:
GE.2.02/EKO
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3844666