Venita Blackburn

Black Jesus and Other Superheroes (eBook, PDF)

Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner-Los Angeles Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesirable superhuman abilities are nonetheless resilient in subtle and startling ways. Venita Blackburn's characters hurl themselves toward the inevitable fates they might rather wish away. Their stories play with magic without the sparkle, glaring at the internal machinations of the human spirit. Fragile symbols for things such as race, sexuality, and love are lifted, decorated, and exposed to scrutiny and awe like so many ruins of our imagination. Through it all Blackburn's characters stumble along currents of language both thoughtful and hilarious.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496204004
• Artikelnr.: 55972432

Autorenporträt

Venita Blackburn is an assistant professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in the newyorker.com, Harpers, Ploughshares,McSweeney’s, the Paris Review, and other venues. She is founder of the literary nonprofit Live, Write (livewriteworkshop.com), which provides free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Blackburn’s second collection of stories, How to Wrestle a Girl, will be published in the fall of 2021.   

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments    
Black Jesus    
Brim        
A Savior, Belief, Tupac, and Balloons    
We Buy Gold    
The Hurt Will Make You Stronger    
Chew        
Take Me to the Water    
In the Middle of Everything There Are Ribbons of Light    
String Theory    
A Brief Excerpt from the History of Salt    
Ephemeros    
Dog People    
Barbers    
End of the World    
Ways to Mourn an Asshole    
Rites        
They Only Look Like They’re Smiling    
The Immolator    
There Are No Ninjas in the End    
Hold ’til Warm    
Ravished    
Not Like You, Not at All    
The Annie Oakley Gun Training for Women    
Scars        
Run Away Screaming