Imani Perry

Black in Blues (eBook, ePUB)

How a Color Tells the Story of My People

• Format: ePub

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062977427
• Artikelnr.: 68994450

Autorenporträt

Imani Perry is the National Book Awardwinning author of South to America, as well as seven other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Perry lives between Philadelphia and Cambridge with her two sons.

Rezensionen

"Imani Perry's work is brilliant and lyrical as ever! How clearly she assesses the history of Black and Blue, knitting them together with language both precise and haunting. This book is a great gift, in that it allowed me to see the world anew with Perry's clear-eyed insight. How Perry allows me to understand my Blue better, too!" - Jesmyn Ward, author of Let Us Descend and Sing, Unburied, Sing


"Black in Blues is a stunningly original journey in search of the historical origins of the very soul of African American life and culture. Along the way, Perry shows, with telling detail and in engaging prose, how 'The Blues' became Black, and how Black people became 'Blues People.'" - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"With Black in Blues, Imani Perry establishes herself as the most important interpreter of Black life in our time. With intellectual skill, an artist's eye, and the beauty of her pen, she powerfully tells the story of our people through the color blue. This is an extraordinary book." - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again and We Are the Leaders

"National Book Award winner Perry offers surprising revelations about the connection between the color blue and Black identity as she explores myth and literature, art and music, folklore and film. . . . An innovative cultural history." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Imani Perry's Black in Blues is a masterful convergence of literature, history, and culture-where color itself becomes the field for reflection and revelation. The sheer span of Perry's thinking, like the sweep of a great sky, stirs the most breathtaking of elusive emotions: awe." - Evan Osnos, author of Wildland and Age of Ambition


"An impressionistic cultural history of the African diaspora through its connections to the color blue, from the Congo to Haiti, Jamaica, and the American South, in music, dance, folklore, art, and literature. . . . Packed with cultural references to Nina Simone, Zora Neale Hurston, Miles Davis, and Picasso's African-inspired Blue Period, this is a fascinating and creative work of popular anthropology . . . Original and affecting." - Booklist (starred review)

"A lyrical meditation on 'the mystery of blue and its alchemy in the lives of Black folk.' . . . In direct and intimate prose, Perry synthesizes an impressive range of research into a sinewy, pulsing narrative that positions the past as an active, living force in the present. Readers will be swept up." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)