I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be (eBook)

A Memoir in Eight Lives

Colin Grant (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
256 Seiten
Random House (Verlag)
9781473592483 (ISBN)

Infos

A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and charming' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other'Grant's most revealing work' NEW STATESMAN I m black, so you don t have to be, Colin Grant s uncle Castus used to tell him. If Colin born in Britain to Jamaican parents worked hard and became a doctor, his race would become invisible; he would shake off the burden his parents generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very different.This is a memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, including of Grant s mother Ethlyn, his father Bageye, his sister Selma, and his great uncle Percy. Each character we meet is navigating their own path. Each life informs Grant s own shifting sense of his identity.Collectively, these stories build into an unforgettable testimony of black British experience.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9781473592483 / 9781473592483