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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (of the Diaspora)

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (of the Diaspora)

Vital-Lazare, Erica
Law, Jamiel
Du Bois, W. E.

Hardcover

Series: Of the Diaspora

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 1952119510
ISBN13: 9781952119514
Publisher: Of the Diaspora
Published: Feb 7 2023
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.21
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.81
Language: English
In Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, early twentieth-century statesman of Black-American discourse W.E.B. Du Bois weaves autofiction with poetry, social essay, science fiction, and Afrofuturist storytelling that presages Butler, Due, Adjei-Brenyah, Shawl, and Jemisin. Three wise men gather as a Christ child of color is born in a Georgia shanty; a reflection on World War I reframes its bloody legacy against the wages of Western imperialism; a deadly race riot in the streets of East St. Louis on the eve of the Fourth of July is revisited as part of a long continuum of exploited inequities, workers' rights violations, and race hatred; and a post-apocalyptic New York finds a Black man and white woman, possibly the last two people on Earth, on the verge of a new reckoning. Du Bois plunges twenty-first century readers into his protean and mysterious text, one that begs us to examine how the Black American experience has changed these last hundred years--and how it remains the same.

Originally published in 1920, Darkwater is reprinted here in a luxurious new hardcover edition, with full-page illustrations by Jamiel Law.

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