Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

Essays

Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?
Jesse McCarthy
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30 Apr 2021 US
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9781631496486
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Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates' s case for reparations to D' Angelo' s simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy' s dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature, and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic intensity. In ? Notes on Trap,? McCarthy borrows a conceit from Susan Sontag to dissect the significance of trap music in American society, while in ? The Master' s Tools,? Vel? ? zquez becomes a lens through which to view Kehinde Wiley' s paintings. Essays on John Edgar Wideman, Terrance Hayes, and Claudia Rankine survey the state of black letters. In ? The Time of the Assassins,? McCarthy, a black American raised in France, writes about returning to Paris after the Bataclan massacre and finding a nation in mourning but dangerously unchanged. Taken together, these essays portray a brilliant critic at work, making sense of our dislocated times while seeking to transform our understanding of race and art, identity and representation.
"McCarthy' s analyses and observations are masterfully articulated, as are his dissents. . . With a younger readership at the top of his mind but an open invitation to all, McCarthy seems determined to draw attention to African-Americans' ' true strength' and ' worth. ' He well knows that if despair brought on by a troubled world is to be kept in check, the right prescriptions must be offered, the right traditions advanced, the right lessons drawn, and from the right people. " -- Jerald Walker - The New York Times Book Review "McCarthy, an assistant professor at Harvard, draws on a broad array of cultural and historical influences - from Kara Walker to Nas to Sappho - in these essays, which he began writing in 2014. He approaches the country' s cultural changes in the intervening years through the lens of the arts and intellectual culture, opening with a provocative question: "What do people owe each other when debts accrued can never be repaid? "" -- 16 New Books to Watch For in March - The New York Times "This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist. " -- Zadie Smith
Jesse McCarthy is assistant professor of English and African American studies at Harvard University. He is an editor at the Point and has written for n+1, Dissent, the Nation, and the New Republic. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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ISBN-13: 9781631496486
Published: 30 Apr 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 239mm
Width: 160mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 589g
Pages: 352

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