The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race - Couverture souple

Ward, Jesmyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408892588 ISBN 13 : 9781408892589

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Edited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received a MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renée Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of Where the Line Bleeds; Let Us Descend, an Oprah Book Club pick and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize; and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers and thinkers to speak on race. From Claudia Rankine to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Kiese Laymon to Carol Anderson, these voices shine a light on the darkest corners of American history, wrestle with the struggles the country faces today and imagine a better future.

Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, The Fire This Time considers the black experience in modern America. Significant progress has been made in the fifty years since Baldwin's essays were published, but America is a long distance away from a post-racial society - a truth that must be confronted if the country is to continue to work towards change.

Baldwin's 'fire next time' is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about. Sage, urgent and impassioned, this is an essential collection edited by one of America's greatest writers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408892588
• ISBN 13: 9781408892589
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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