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Hailed by Toni Morrison as .required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by .the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The New York Observer)
.This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it."
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of .race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men-bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son-and readers-the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Utgivelsesår 2016
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9781925240702
EAN 9781925240702
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
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Boken er skrevet som en monolog fra far til sønn, med utgangspunkt i farens oppfatning av hva det vil si å være i en afroamerikansk kropp. Jeg oppfatter boken som sterkt personlig. Forfatteren opplever at han som afroamerikaner er en annenrangs borger. En som ikke får ta del i den amerikanske drømmen. Drømmen er forbeholdt de hvite. Boken er aktuell i lys av raseopptøyene i USA denne våren, og kan leses på mange nivå.
Pr. mai 2016 har jeg ikke lest denne boken, bare blitt oppmerksom på den; her er bokanmeldelsen i The Guardian. Som ikke er overstrømmende positiv:
A self-conscious step back from a present whose crimes and bloodiness (this book) sees as consistent with American history, the volume is a rather strange blend of epistolary non-fiction, autobiography and political theory that has at its heart a simple message: “In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body – it is heritage.”
Avbrøyt boka for eit drygt år sidan, men fann den som lydbok og høyrte heile idag. Det er forfatteren sjølv som les. Syns det var interessant, og til ettertanke. Kan trygt tilrådast som selskap mens ein går tur eller ordner i hagen.
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketAnyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
You can not forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton and gold.
I was a curious boy but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance.
Good intentions is a hall pass through history a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.
The robbery of time is not measured in lifespans but in moments.
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