Overview
Now available in paperback, an insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through the lens of visual art, literature, film, and the author's lived experience, Out of the Sun examines Black histories in art, offering new perspectives to challenge us. In this groundbreaking, reflective, and erudite book, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan illuminates myriad varieties of Black experience in global culture and history. Edugyan combines storytelling with analyses of contemporary events and her own personal story in this dazzling first major work of non-fiction.
Full Product Details
Author: Esi Edugyan
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 20.10cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781487009861
ISBN 10: 1487009860
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 06 September 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Not yet available
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Reviews
Out of the Sun is an artful patchwork quilt, constructed from existing scholarship in a number of fields and other sources. ... Each section of the book represents another moment in time, brimming with historical personages. -- Event Magazine Distinguished by its erudite yet unpretentious prose and probing viewpoints, this is an essential reckoning with how history is made. -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Distinguished by its erudite yet unpretentious prose and probing viewpoints, this is an essential reckoning with how history is made. -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Author Information
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Victoria, ESI EDUGYAN was raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Washington Black, which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Man Booker Award and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Half-Blood Blues, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize; and The Second Life of Samuel Tyne. She is also the author of Dreaming of Elsewhere, which is part of the Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. She has held fellowships in the U.S., Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain, and Belgium. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
