Tragic Magic: (of the Diaspora - North America) 9781944211981

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Автор: Brown Wesley
Название: Tragic Magic: (of the Diaspora - North America)
ISBN: 9781944211981
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Этика и философия нравов

Православные и Восточные Церкви

Христанская жизнь и культовая практика Христианства

Христианское служение и пастырская деятельность

Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

ISBN-10: 1944211985
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 176
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 15.09.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 147 x 20
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Brown structures this first-person tale around Ellingtons first day on the outside. Although hungry for freedom and desperate for female companionship, Ellington is haunted by a past that drives him to make sense of those choices leading up to this day. Through a filmic series of flashbacks the novel revisits Ellingtons prison experiences, where he is forced to play the unwilling patsy to the predatorial Chilly and the callow pupil of the not-so-predatorial Hardknocks; then dips further back to Ellingtons college days where again he takes second stage to the hypnotic militarism of the Black Pantheresque Theo, whose antiwar politics incite the impressionable narrator to oppose his parents and to choose imprisonment over conscription; and finally back to his earliest high school days where we meet in Otis the presumed archetype of Ellingtons tragic magic relationships with magnetic but dangerous avatars of black masculinity in crisis. But the effect of the novel cannot be conveyed through plot recapitulation alone, for its style is perhaps even more provoking than its subject. Originally published in 1978, and edited by Toni Morrison during her time at Random House, this Of the Diaspora edition of Tragic Magic features a new introduction by author Wesley Brown and Ismail Muhammad.

Tragic Magic is a tremendous affirmation. .One hell of a writer.
- James Baldwin

. . .wonderfully wry.
- Donald Barthelme

About Of the Diaspora:

McSweeneys Of the Diaspora is a series of previously published works in Black literature whose themes, settings, characterizations, and conflicts evoke an experience, language, imagery and power born of the Middle Passage and the particular aesthetic which connects African-derived peoples to a shared artistic and ancestral past. Wesley Browns Tragic Magic, the first novel in the series, was originally published in 1978 and championed by Toni Morrison during her tenure as an editor at Random House. This Of the Diaspora edition features a new introduction written by Brown for the series. Tragic Magic will be followed by Paule Marshalls novel of a Harlem widow claiming new life. Praisesong for the Widow was originally published in 1983 and was a recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. The series is edited by writer Erica Vital-Lazare, a professor of creative writing and Marginalized Voices in literature at the College of Southern Nevada. Published in collectible hardcover editions with original cover art by Sunra Thompson, the first three works hail from Black American voices defined by what Amiri Baraka described as strong feeling getting into new blues, from the old ones. Of the Diaspora-North America will be followed by series from the diasporic communities of Europe, the Caribbean and Brazil.

Tragic Magic: (of the Diaspora - North America), Brown Wesley