Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories - Couverture souple

Blackburn, Venita

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496201868 ISBN 13 : 9781496201867

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496201868
• ISBN 13: 9781496201867
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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• Personne responsable: non disponible