The strangers : five extraordinary Black men and the worlds that made them
Eshun, Ekow2025
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In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in their own right but the representative of a type. What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? And what happens beneath the mask? In answer, Ekow Eshun conjures the voices of five very different men. Ira Aldridge: nineteenth century actor and playwright. Matthew Henson: polar explorer. Frantz Fanon: psychiatrist and political philosopher. Malcolm X: activist leader. Justin Fashanu: million-pound footballer. Each a trailblazer in his field. Each haunted by a sense of isolation and exile. Each reaching for a better future.
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Author:
Eshun, Ekow, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2025.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2024.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780241990698 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
305.38896305.388305.388 ESHU
Language:
English
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BRN:
6970945
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