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Letter To Jimmy eBook
idioma: inglês
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SOFT SKULL PRESS, outubro de 2014 ‧
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Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou’s ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin’s life in context within the greater African diaspora.
Beginning with a chance encounter with a beggar wandering along a Santa Monica beach—a man whose ragged clothes and unsteady gait remind the author of a character out of one of James Baldwin’s novels— Mabanckou uses his own experiences as an African living in the US as a launching pad to take readers on a fascinating tour of James Baldwin’s life. As Mabanckou reads Baldwin’s work, looks at pictures of him through the years, and explores Baldwin’s checkered publishing history, he is always probing for answers about what it must have been like for the young Baldwin to live abroad as an African-American, to write obliquely about his own homosexuality, and to seek out mentors like Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison only to publicly reject them
later.
As Mabanckou travels to Paris, reads about French history and engages with contemporary readers, his letters to Baldwin grow more intimate and personal. He speaks to Baldwin as a peer—a writer who paved the way for his own work, and Mabanckou seems to believe, someone who might understand his experiences as an African expatriate.
Beginning with a chance encounter with a beggar wandering along a Santa Monica beach—a man whose ragged clothes and unsteady gait remind the author of a character out of one of James Baldwin’s novels— Mabanckou uses his own experiences as an African living in the US as a launching pad to take readers on a fascinating tour of James Baldwin’s life. As Mabanckou reads Baldwin’s work, looks at pictures of him through the years, and explores Baldwin’s checkered publishing history, he is always probing for answers about what it must have been like for the young Baldwin to live abroad as an African-American, to write obliquely about his own homosexuality, and to seek out mentors like Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison only to publicly reject them
later.
As Mabanckou travels to Paris, reads about French history and engages with contemporary readers, his letters to Baldwin grow more intimate and personal. He speaks to Baldwin as a peer—a writer who paved the way for his own work, and Mabanckou seems to believe, someone who might understand his experiences as an African expatriate.
DETALHES
| Propriedade | Descrição |
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| ISBN: | 9781619024212 |
| Editor: | SOFT SKULL PRESS |
| Data de Lançamento: | outubro de 2014 |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
| Tipo de produto: | eBook |
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| EAN: | 9781619024212 |
SOBRE O AUTOR
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou (Pointe-Noire, República do Congo, 24 de fevereiro de 1966) é um escritor congolês, com dupla nacionalidade franco-congolês.
Estudou Direito em Brazzaville e, posteriormente, em França. Após concluir a pós-graduação na Universidade Paris-Dauphine, trabalhou durante vários anos em importantes multinacionais francesas antes de se consagrar por completo à literatura. Reside nos Estados Unidos, como professor convidado desde 2002; inicialmente como professor de literatura francófona e de "escrita criativa" na Universidade de Michigan e, mais recentemente, na Universidade de Califórnia (UCLA), com disciplinas de literatura francófona.
É autor de doze romances, seis livros de poesia, dois livros infantojuvenis e de diversos relatos que são publicados em distintos periódicos como Le Figaro (Paris), Le Soir (Bruxelas) e em duas obras coletivas: Relatos de África ("Nouvelles d’Afrique") em 2003 e Visto desde a Lua, relatos otimistas ("Vu de la lune, Nouvelles optimistes") em 2005.
Em 2006, com o romance Memórias de porco-espinho, conseguiu o importante prémio Renaudot. Em 2008, Mabanckou traduziu do inglês para o francês a obra de Uzodinma Iweala, um escritor nigeriano considerado como um jovem prodígio da literatura norte-americana.
Entre 2015 e 2016, o escritor lecionou no Collège de France na cadeira de Criação artística, com o curso intitulado de Letras negras: das trevas à luz (transformado em livro posteriormente).
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