The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit - Couverture rigide

Randall, Julian

 
9781645030263: The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit
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ISBN 10 : 1645030261 ISBN 13 : 9781645030263
Editeur : Bold Type Books, 2024

Synopsis

This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture

The Dead Don't Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall's return from a near-suicidal depression, and his determination to retrace his great-grandfather's history to the Mississippi town where he had the audacity to pass and from which he was driven out amid threats of being tarred and feathered.

?Both journeys through and to identity are almost unbearable-yet each is sustained by the joyful exuberance of Randall's favourite songs, movies, TV shows, and sporting moments that play in his head as he takes on the challenge. Spiderman reminds him of his powers; Kanye's tribute to Donda becomes a riff on parents and children; watching Devin Hester's kick-off return with his dad shows his father's fire within, usually so carefully controlled; and in the One Day at a Time reboot, Julian finds representation of the out, queer, Latinx teen that he never had growing up. Adonis Creed, and Rocky, are a funny and poignant reflection on mortality. Everything is about race and America's unrelenting violence on Black people.

The book is a kaleidoscope of voices, feelings and insights into the pressure and pain of oppression, that culminates in a triumph; Julian Randall gets his ghost story back.

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À propos de l?auteur

Julian Randall is a contributor to the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Boy Joy and his middle-grade novel, Pilar Ramirez and the Escape From Zafa, was published by Holt in 2022. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Tin House, and Milkweed Editions. He is the winner of the 2019 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from the Publishing Triangle, the 2019 Frederick Bock Prize, and a Pushcart prize. His poetry has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and POETRY. His first book, Refuse, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He lives in Chicago.

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Éditeur
Bold Type Books
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1645030261
ISBN 13 
9781645030263
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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