Mlikah abdelmoumen (3 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Shortlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ? Finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation ? Finalist for the 2025 John Glassco Translation Prize ? Finalist for the 2026 French American Foundation Translation Prize ? A Globe 100 Best Book of 2025 ? Longlisted for the 2025 Warland Award ? A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2025 ? A Quill & Quire Notable Book of 2025An unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron?s guest house. The two wrote during the day, then spent evenings confiding in each other and talking about race in America. During one of those conversations, Baldwin is said to have convinced his friend to write, in first person, the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. The Confessions of Nat Turner was published to critical acclaim, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1968, and also creating outrage in part of the African American community.Decades later, the controversy around cultural appropriation, identity, and the rights and responsibilities of the writer still resonates. In Baldwin, Styron, and Me, Mélikah Abdelmoumen considers the writers' surprising yet vital friendship from her standpoint as a racialized woman torn by the often unidimensional versions of her identity put forth by today?s politics and media. Considering questions of identity, race, equity, and the often contentious public debates about these topics, Abdelmoumen works to create a space where the answers are found by first learning how to listen?even in disagreement.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Shortlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ? Finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation ? Finalist for the 2025 John Glassco Translation Prize ? Finalist for the 2026 French American Foundation Translation Prize ? A Globe 100 Best Book of 2025 ? Longlisted for the 2025 Warland Award ? A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2025 ? A Quill & Quire Notable Book of 2025An unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron?s guest house. The two wrote during the day, then spent evenings confiding in each other and talking about race in America. During one of those conversations, Baldwin is said to have convinced his friend to write, in first person, the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. The Confessions of Nat Turner was published to critical acclaim, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1968, and also creating outrage in part of the African American community.Decades later, the controversy around cultural appropriation, identity, and the rights and responsibilities of the writer still resonates. In Baldwin, Styron, and Me, Mélikah Abdelmoumen considers the writers' surprising yet vital friendship from her standpoint as a racialized woman torn by the often unidimensional versions of her identity put forth by today?s politics and media. Considering questions of identity, race, equity, and the often contentious public debates about these topics, Abdelmoumen works to create a space where the answers are found by first learning how to listen?even in disagreement.…

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