{"product_id":"the-strangers-five-extraordinary-black-men-and-the-worlds-that-made-them","title":"The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eshun, Ekow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Hamish Hamilton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 19-09-2024\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780241472026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025\u003cbr\u003e\nLONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA Book of the Year 2024 in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and Observer\u003cbr\u003e\nRichly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book' Bernardine Evaristo\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Luminous and extraordinary... This book will be referenced for years to come' Lemn Sissay\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in their own right but the representative of a type.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? And what happens beneath the mask?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn answer, Ekow Eshun conjures the voices of five very different men. Ira Aldridge: nineteenth century actor and playwright. Matthew Henson: polar explorer. Frantz Fanon: psychiatrist and political philosopher. Malcolm X: activist leader. Justin Fashanu: million-pound footballer. Each a trailblazer in his field. Each haunted by a sense of isolation and exile. Each reaching for a better future.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEkow Eshun tells their stories with breathtaking lyricism and empathy, capturing both the hostility and the beauty they experienced in the world. And he locates them within a wider landscape of Black art, culture, history and politics which stretches from Africa to Europe to North America and the Caribbean. As he moves through this landscape, he maps its thematic contours and fault lines, uncovering traces of the monstrous and the fantastic, of exile and escape, of conflict and vulnerability, and of the totemic central figure of the stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780241472026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamish Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50129624465712,"sku":"Trans_9780241472026","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/71PupJOL1yL.jpg?v=1757504787","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-strangers-five-extraordinary-black-men-and-the-worlds-that-made-them","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}