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The message / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi, (author,, narrator.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593916414
  • ISBN: 0593916417
  • Physical Description: 5 audio discs (5 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, [2024]

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Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories, our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking, expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city, a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book's longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground.
Subject: Coates, Ta-Nehisi.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi > Travel.
African American journalists > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Senegal > Social conditions.
South Carolina > Race relations.
Palestine > Social conditions.
Israel > Ethnic relations.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Autobiographies.

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  • 5 of 6 copies available at Bibliomation.

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Douglas Library of Hebron AUDIO 070.92 COA (Text) 33400156373162 Adult New Nonfiction CD Available -
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