Lote
Autor Shola von Reinholden Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 iun 2022
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|---|---|---|
| Paperback (2) | 62.54 lei 3-5 săpt. | +18.91 lei 4-10 zile |
| Jacaranda Books – 26 mar 2020 | 62.54 lei 3-5 săpt. | +18.91 lei 4-10 zile |
| Duke University Press – 21 iun 2022 | 111.53 lei 3-5 săpt. |
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1478018720
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Duke University Press
Descriere
Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright Young Things," the Bloomsbury Group, and their contemporaries of the '20s and '30s, and throughout her life her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness.
After discovering a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia Druitt, who ran in the same circles as the Bright Young Things, Mathilda becomes transfixed and resolves to learn as much as she can about the mysterious figure. Her search brings her to a peculiar artists' residency in Dun, a small European town in which Hermia was known to have lived during the '30s.
The artists' residency throws her deeper into a lattice of secrets and secret societies that takes hold of her aesthetic imagination. From champagne theft and Black Modernisms to art sabotage, alchemy, and a lotus-eating proto-luxury communist cult, Mathilda's "Escapes" through modes of aesthetic expression lead her to question the convoluted ways truth is made and obscured.
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Recenzii
a celebration of eccentric esprit
Lote is a magical, revolutionary piece of writing
An inspirational, cutting, exquisitely written, multilevel excavation of forgotten Black lives and an Afro-queer celebration of art, aesthetics, literature, and society.
LOTE is very very very close to being a masterpiece (and one could make the case that it's so close that it is one)...
...it's fucking brilliant - provocative, raucously funny, intelligent without being smarmy and uses multiple voices of alleged different sources.
Read LOTE, it's great.
...phenomenal writing. [Shola has] a clear talent for describing emotions, people, places, colours and textures so vividly and I loved their ability to capture life's more absurd moments (I'm thinking of the Pousse Café Royal cocktail in particular). LOTE has a serious message at its core, a message that will certainly inform my intersectional feminist activism moving forwards, especially as a white, middle-class, straight woman. But LOTE is just as much a joyful celebration of Black culture that gloriously succeeds at reappropriating eccentricity, usually reserved for white members of the aristocracy, through a Black, queer lens.