Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
By: Esi Edugyan
4.30
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers…
Want to Read $ 10.99"Had Africa's mineral wealth not been plundered, had its people not been enslaved and made subjects, the possibilities for its future would be limitless."-Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
"Had Africa's mineral wealth not been plundered, had its people not been enslaved and made subjects, the possibilities for its future would be limitless."-Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
"The level of advocacy on behalf of others is a rarity -- and sorely needed. The work of equality is the labour not of the few but the many, including those who have benefited and continue to benefit the most from an unequal system. Change that must take place on a broad social scale must be just that -- broadly social. Everyone has their part to play. But it is not for advocates to occupy spaces intended for the very people they are fighting for."-Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
"The level of advocacy on behalf of others is a rarity -- and sorely needed. The work of equality is the labour not of the few but the many, including those who have benefited and continue to benefit the most from an unequal system. Change that must take place on a broad social scale must be just that -- broadly social. Everyone has their part to play. But it is not for advocates to occupy spaces intended for the very people they are fighting for."-Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
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2. The Love of a Good Woman
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3.95
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Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
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4.20
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
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"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
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"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
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20. Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
By: Esi Edugyan
4.30
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers… read more
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"The condition of being alienated and "othered" reflects the ways in which navigating Western societies as a Black person is an endlessly unsettling experience, something that might be ripped whole fr…"-Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
"Race, it seems, has become the fiction into which we pour our pent-up frustration and rage. Benign physical differences become, in the absence of understanding, stand-ins for an enemy virus we cannot…"-Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
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