Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid
南アフリカの反アパルトヘイト運動とアメリカでの経験を往復する、鋭い政治的回想録。
作品情報
亡命と帰還のあいだで、黒人政治の歴史を語り直す。
ブラック・アメリカンとしてアフリカ民族会議に関わった著者が、南アフリカの闘争とアメリカでの成長史を重ねて語る。政治記録であると同時に、自己形成の物語でもある。
レビュー要約
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理論的でありながら個人的でもある語りが、読み終えたあとも長く残ると評価されている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- South End Pr
- 発売日
- 2008-08-01
- ページ数
- 498ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.61 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780896087835
- ISBN-10
- 0896087832
- 価格
- 12627 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Africa/South Africa
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him a "threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid is that "comment." It is also his response to a question posed five years later by a student in a California university classroom: "How come you came back?"
Frank B. Wilderson III teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine. Frank B. Wilderson III is the author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (South End Press) and Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms (Duke University Press), and the director of Reparations...Now, a film in progress. A critically-acclaimed scholar and artist, Wilderson's writing has garnered numerous awards and honors, including the National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Judith Stronach Award for Poetry, the Loft-McKnight Award for Best Prose in the State of Minnesota, the Maya Angelou Award for Best Fiction Portraying the Black Experience in America, the Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement of the Highest Order, the Crothers Short Story Award, and the Jerome Foundation Artists and Writers Award. In 2008, Incognegro won the American Book Award. Wilderson teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine.
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Best Book I've Read in Years- Changed my Life
Some on the most unique commentary on the contemporary Black American experience, specifically the pain and frustration that comes with being Black in so called "post-racial" America. After the death of Mandela, his commentary on South Africa is especially timely in terms of balancing out the political commentary on this controversial figure. The smartest people I know swear by this book for good reason; it's completely unique and extremely insightful.
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A must read.
A revelation, important, moving and enlightening, human and inspiring. A must read.
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Five Stars
must read
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