Out of The Sun

Essays at the Crossroads of Race

Esi Edugyan

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English

Serpent's Tail
29 March 2022

The Arts: General & Reference; Black & Asian studies; Political oppression & persecution

History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings?

As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. Written with the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, in five wide-ranging essays Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences as the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century.

With calm, piercing intelligence, and a refusal to think on anyone's terms but her own, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future, and invites the reader to think alongside her in working out what the answers to these may be.

By: Esi Edugyan
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781788169905
ISBN 10: 1788169905
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 29 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Esi Edugyan's novel Washington Black was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and The Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her previous novel, Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize and the Orange Prize.

Reviews for Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

'Praise for Esi Edugyan: Wondrous ... gripping ... vivid and captivating' - Economist 'Magnificent and strikingly visual prose' - Financial Times 'Exquisite' - New York Magazine 'Edugyan is a magical writer' - Washington Post 'A towering achievement . . . Edugyan is one of our sharpest and deepest writers' - Entertainment Weekly