Louis Chude-Sokei
Autore di Floating in a most peculiar way
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Louis Chude-Sokei is an award-winning writer and scholar of the literatures and cultures of the African diaspora and professor of English and director of African American Studies at Boston University. He is also editor in chief of The Black Scholar, the premier journal of Black Studies in America, mostra altro and a curator of Carnegie Hall's 2022 Festival of Afrofuturism. mostra meno
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- 4
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- 64
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- #264,968
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- 3.1
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- 3
- ISBN
- 12
Chude-Sokei writes in a understated way that eschews a lot of editorialising or setting out lessons learned—even when he's talking about some experiences that the reader has to imagine were personally upsetting, if not traumatising. He also forgoes tangents into, say, the specific histories of Black neighbourhoods in Los Angeles or a timeline of the Biafra War. While this means that some readers may not grasp the full import or context of certain events, as a narrative choice I thought it worked, allowing Chude-Sokei to focus on the immediacy of his personal experiences.… (altro)