BOOK

The strangers : five extraordinary Black men and the worlds that made them

Eshun, Ekow, author

2024

Overview

In 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. What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? And what happens beneath the mask? In 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.

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Subject: Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867. / Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955. / Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961. / X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. / Fashanu, Justin, 1961-1998. / Men, Black Biography. / Men, Black Social conditions. / Biography.
• ISBN: 9780241472026

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