Description: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates With his bestseller, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates established himself as a unique voice in his generation of American authors; a brilliant writer and thinker in the tradition of James Baldwin.In his keenly anticipated new book, The Message, he explores the urgent question of how our stories - our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking - both expose and distort our realities. Travelling to three resonant sites of conflict, he illuminates how the stories we tell - as well as the ones we dont - work to shape us.The first of the books three main parts finds Coates on his inaugural trip to Africa - a journey to Dakar, where he finds himself in two places at once- a modern city in Senegal and the ghost-haunted country of his imagination. He then takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on the banning of his own work and the deep roots of a false and fiercely protected American mythology - visibly on display in this capital of the confederacy, with statues of segregationists still looming over its public squares. Finally in Palestine, Coates sees with devastating clarity the tragedy that grows in the clash between the stories we tell and reality on the ground.Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the countrys most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world - and our own souls - and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department. Review A revelatory meditation on shattering journeys . . . Interweaving autobiography and reportage, Coates examines race, his identity as a Black American, and his role as a public intellectual * Kirkus (starred review) *Brilliant and timely . . . Coates presents three blazing essays on race, moral complicity, and a storytellers responsibility to the truth. . . . Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing * Booklist (starred review) * Details ISBN0241724198 Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13 9780241724194 Format Paperback Imprint Hamish Hamilton Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9780241724187 Audience General Year 2024 Publication Date 2024-10-17 UK Release Date 2024-10-17 NZ Release Date 2024-10-21 AU Release Date 2024-10-21 Pages 240 Language English ISBN-10 0241724198 DEWEY 814.6 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168737913;
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