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The Message

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Message

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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 don't - work to shape us. The first of the book's 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 country's 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2025-02-06
Publication Date:
2025-02-06
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
024172418X
ISBN13:
9780241724187
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
348 g
Height:
143 cm
Width:
219 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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