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Malcolm X de Manning Marable

Malcolm X

Autor Manning Marable
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 dec 2011

Analiza procesului de transformare a lui Malcolm X, de la tânărul de la țară la liderul carismatic al Națiunii Islamului, reprezintă pilonul central al acestei biografii monumentale. Considerăm că forța acestei lucrări rezidă în capacitatea lui Manning Marable de a privi dincolo de „sfântul laic” construit de discipolii săi după anii '60, oferind în schimb portretul unui om marcat de îndoieli și autocontradicții. Găsim în această ediție o documentare riguroasă care depășește narativul hagiografic, explorând perioadele de „reinvenție” ale subiectului, de la viața de infractor la cea de deținut autodidact și, ulterior, de voce radicală a Americii negre.

Stilul narativ îmbină precizia academică a unui profesor de la Columbia University cu dinamismul unui roman de tip „true-crime”, în special în capitolele care investighează contextul asasinării sale. Merită menționat că această lucrare extinde cadrul propus de The Autobiography of Malcolm X de Alex Haley, oferind o perspectivă critică asupra evenimentelor pe care Malcolm X le-a omis sau le-a remodelat în propria sa relatare. În timp ce The Dead Are Arising de Les Payne se bazează pe trei decenii de interviuri cu martori direcți, volumul lui Marable se distinge prin analiza politică profundă și prin integrarea documentelor FBI și a rapoartelor poliției pentru a clarifica zonele de umbră ale biografiei sale.

În contextul operei sale, Manning Marable continuă aici temele explorate în How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, aplicând aceleași grile de analiză socioeconomică asupra vieții unui singur individ care a devenit simbolul unei lupte sistemice. Este o lectură densă, de peste 600 de pagini, care recontextualizează radical locul lui Malcolm X în istoria modernă a Statelor Unite.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780143120322
ISBN-10: 0143120328
Pagini: 624
Ilustrații: 16 pp. b/w photos (on insert stock?)
Dimensiuni: 151 x 230 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Această biografie este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă complexitatea mișcărilor pentru drepturi civile din SUA, dincolo de simplificările istorice. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care identitatea politică se construiește și se transformă sub presiunea socială. Este recomandată studenților la sociologie și istorie, dar și cititorilor pasionați de biografii politice riguroase, care caută adevărul din spatele mitului creat în jurul lui Malcolm X.

Despre autor

Manning Marable a fost un distins profesor de afaceri publice, istorie și studii afro-americane la Columbia University, unde a condus Centrul pentru Istoria Afro-Americană Contemporană. Recunoscut ca unul dintre cei mai proeminenți comentatori americani pe teme de relații rasiale și politică, Marable și-a dedicat cariera analizării structurilor puterii și inegalității. Opera sa, care include volume de referință precum New Black Renaissance și Speaking Truth To Power, este caracterizată printr-o rigoare academică dublată de un angajament profund față de justiția socială, biografia lui Malcolm X fiind considerată punctul culminant al cercetărilor sale.

Descriere scurtă

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism as followers of Marcus Garvey through his own work with the Nation of Islam and rise in the world of black nationalism, and culminates in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X is a stunning achievement, the definitive work on one of our greatest advocates for social change.

Recenzii

 “Malcolm X is etched in the American imagination—and the American psyche—in the particular and unyielding terms of radical and militant… Marable brings a lifetime of study to this biography, which is the crowning achievement of a magnificent career.”

 “Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth century. Glory Hallelujah!”

 “Manning Marable’s Malcolm X is his magnum opus, a work of extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty … This majestic and eloquent tour de force will stand for some time as the definitive work on as enigmatic and electrifying a leader as has ever sprung from American soil.” 

 “It will be difficult for anyone to better this book... It is a work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom.” 

 “In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography. . . Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that have been lacquered onto his subject’s life — first by Malcolm himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and opponents after his assassination.”

 “Unlike Bruce Perry’s 1991 biography, Malcolm, which entertained the most outlandish stories in an attempt to present a comprehensive portrait, Marable’s biography judiciously sifts fact from myth.” 

 “Magisterial…Marable’s biography is an exceedingly brave as well as a major intellectual accomplishment.” 

 “Marable has crafted an extraordinary portrait of a man and his time…A masterpiece.”

 “This book is a must read.”

 “Thankfully, we have Manning Marable's new biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention — which is, simply put, a stunning achievement — to help us better understand Malcolm’s complex life.” 

 “The book also has much to recommend it for its history of orthodox Islam, the perspective it offers on the black political movements of the 1950s and 1960s that changed America, and its insights into the development and inner workings of the Nation of Islam.”

 “Manning Marable’s scholarship was as provocative and profound as it was prodigious.” 

 “[Marable] devoted his magnificent career—more than most scholars do—to living what he wrote and what he thought. His commitment not only to equality of opportunity but also to the exposure of falsehood and hypocrisy was a hallmark of his pathbreaking work.” 

 “Marable accomplishes the difficult task of showing the bad boy of the civil rights era as an actual human being . . . Each page almost secretes the formidable research into hard facts. Marable lets the chips fall where they may because he is interested in the humanity of Malcolm X, as all true scholars should be.” 

 “This is history at its finest—written with passion and attention and drive. It is a fitting testament to the lives and the legacies of both subject and author.”

 “Marable’s definitive biography is now the standard by which scholars can evaluate, not just what Malcolm X said, but what generations of others have said about him.”

  “This book is not the only representation of Manning's brilliance… it is a culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and activism, a larger project devoted to telling the stories of a people engaged in an epic, painful and beautiful struggle for freedom.”

 “This superbly perceptive and resolutely honest book will long endure as a definitive treatment of Malcolm’s life, if not of the actors complicit in his death.”

 “The book is cause for celebration . . . The book is full of revelations, big and small, and amounts to a full-on reconsideration of Malcolm’s life and death.” 

  “As Malcolm lived on through his best-selling autobiography, so will Marable, through his unmatched body of writing, his educational contributions, his illuminations on Malcolm X's legacy and his devoted students.” 

 “Manning was an unflinching and breathtakingly prolific scholar whose commitments to racial, economic, gender, and international justice were unparalleled . . . That we will have his long-anticipated, great and final work even as he leaves us is so classically, tragically appropriate.” 

 “While Marable himself is irreplaceable, he has provided a foundation for future generations and will continue to shape our understanding of social change and justice.” 

 “A prolific scholar.” 

Notă biografică

Manning Marable (1951-2011) was M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. He was founding director of African American Studies at Columbia from 1993 to 2003, and directed Columbia’s Center for Contemporary Black History. The author of fifteen books, Marable was also the editor of the quarterly journal Souls.

Descriere

Of the great figures in 20th-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Marable's biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Years in the making, this is the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.