James B. Haile III

The Dark Delight of Being Strange

Black Stories of Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231216296
• ISBN-10: 0231216297
• Artikelnr.: 71689779

Autorenporträt

James B. Haile, III is an Afrosurrealist and Afrofuturist writer who is an associate professor of philosophy with a joint appointment in English at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface: P.S.A.
Part I: Of the Door of No Return to the Stars
1. Henry Box Brown: An Ode to the Enigma of Black Freedom
2. At Rest: Journey to the Center of the Earth
3. Dumas: This Land of Mine
Part II: On the Transformation of the Spirit
4. Theft
5. Tath¿gata
6. Appetite/Fever/Consumption
Epilogue: Nero-Toward a More Perfect Union
Notes
Index