Anna Della Subin

Accidental Gods (eBook, ePUB)

On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists, militants, mystics and explorers. From the conquistadors setting foot in the New World to Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, elevated by a National Geographic article from emperor to messiah for the Rastafari faith, to the unlikely officers hailed as gods during the British Raj, this endlessly curious and revelatory account chronicles an impulse towards deification that persists even in a secular age, as show of defiance or assertion of power.In her bravura final part, Subin traces the colonial desire for divinity through to the creation of 'race' and the white power movement today, and argues that it is time we rid ourselves of the white gods among us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783785032
• Artikelnr.: 66252682

Autorenporträt

Anna Della Subin is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School. She has worked as an editor for Bidoun and contributed to the London Review of Books, New York Times, The New Yorker online, Harper's, and The White Review. She lives in Dublin.