Dark Delight of Being Strange - Black Stories of Freedom

An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface: P.S.A.
Part I: Of the Door of No Return to the Stars
1. Henry Box Brown: An Ode to the Enigma of Black Freedom
2. At Rest: Journey to the Center of the Earth
3. Dumas: This Land of Mine
Part II: On the Transformation of the Spirit
4. Theft
5. Tathāgata
6. Appetite/Fever/Consumption
Epilogue: Nero—Toward a More Perfect Union
Notes
Index

About the author

James B. Haile, III is an Afrosurrealist and Afrofuturist writer who is an associate professor of philosophy with a joint appointment in English at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present (2020).

Summary

An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life.

Product details

• Authors: III Haile, James B. Haile III
• Assisted by: Ytasha L. Womack (Foreword), Womack Ytasha L. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.12.2024
• EAN: 9780231216302
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21630-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Education, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, literary criticism; philosophy; social science