Out There
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465057608 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Darryl Pinckney is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction and author of the novel High Cotton and of the texts for Robert Wilson's productions of The Forest, Orlando, and Time Rocker. He lives in Oxford, England.. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other periodicals
. Carter, and Caryl Phillips. Rogers, born in Jamaica, was a journalist involved with the Harlem Renaissance. Rogers, Vincent O. Phillips, who has written both fiction and nonfiction, immigrated during infancy from the Caribbean to postwar Britain. Carter, born in Missouri, moved to Switzerland in the 1950s to write but published only one work, The Bern Book: A Record of the Voyage of a Mind. Despite the authors' diverse backgrounds, their writing shares a common theme of "an obsessive's solitary journey," and they all recount tales of "alienated consciousness." The essay about Carter is particularly remarkable, as one learns of his struggles to write and acclimate in a city where he is the only black man. These essays leave the reader wanting to learn more. As an Afro European, Phillips discovered his desire to write only after a trip to America. Pi
"An intriguing and thoughtful account" according to Midwest Book Review. Mavericks of black literature are the focus of these essays, considering such under-mentioned writers as J.A. Rogers, an early member of the Harlem Renaissance and pioneering journalist; and Vincent Carter, who lived as a voluntary expatriate writer in Europe. Out There is an intriguing and thoughtful account of a very unusual set of black writers.
Rogers was an early member of the Harlem Renaissance--a newspaper columnist, historian of Negro achievement, polemicist against white supremacy, and amateur sociologist of interracial sex as evidenced in his massive three-volume work Sex and Race. Caryl Phillips, a son of the generation of black Caribbeans who returned to Great Britain after the Second World War, has explored the psychology of migration in fiction and nonfiction that include The Final Passage, Higher Ground, and The Nature of Blood. With this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a lot to tell us about the history of a people who are always "outsiders." Born in Jamaica in 1883, J. Carter, who came of age in 1920's Kansas City, wrote The Bern Book, an exploration of being black in a Swiss rather than an American setting. Vincent O. A. Pinckney's essays on these writers, drawn from his Alain Locke Lectures at Harvard University, give us a rich understanding of what it has meant to be "children of the diaspora" over the past century.