Blue Futures, Break Open: A Novel - Tapa blanda

Gadegbeku, Zoë

 
9781959000396: Blue Futures, Break Open: A Novel
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ISBN 10: 195900039X ISBN 13: 9781959000396
Editorial: West Virginia University Press, 2025

Sinopsis

Blue Basin Island is the final resting spot of formerly enslaved Africans whose souls have flown from Earth—not to heaven or purgatory but toward freedom and a new life. Lucille, the island’s seamstress, takes two forms. She lives among the inhabitants in human form and, along with the evil-repelling blue of the houses, her divine form protects people from the violence of the their former lives. Yet, even there, outside of time, the souls are not totally insulated from the world in which they were enslaved. Each time a Black person anywhere is harmed, a piece of Blue Basin disintegrates: an earthquake leaves hundreds of thousands dead, and bricks crumble on the island; when police kill a Black child asleep in her bed, the blue paint on homes throughout the island drips and then runs from the walls. Lucille must hold the island together, but she struggles to juggle the responsibility of ensuring everyone’s safety while also seeking and losing her own private love. Grounding the story in African folklore and dipping into the rich literary tradition around African people with the power of flight, Zoë Gadegbeku visualizes the destination at the end of the flight and the new life that awaits them.

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Acerca del autor

ZoË Gadegbeku is a Ghanaian writer. She received an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and was a fellow at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her writing has appeared in SarabaMagazine, AFREADA, Blackbird, The Washington Post, and the anthology Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism. This is her first book.

De la contraportada

On a mythical island oasis for Black souls, Lucille, a half-divine, half-human seamstress, juggles the responsibility of ensuring everyone’s safety while seeking and losing love in her personal life in this novel of Afrofuturism.

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Editorial
West Virginia University Press
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
195900039X
ISBN 13 
9781959000396
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
377
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