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Chargement... Black Empirepar George S. Schuyler
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I know I agreed to read this novel published by Mint Editions, but Mint Editions obviously didn't read their book before sending it to me. Not only did no one bother to proofread this error-strewn scan (to correct scannos such as "close" for "dose" and fix all the periods that should be commas), no one even bothered to run it through spellcheck. Page 30 has "lorgery" and "endirely dillerem" which at least I could translate to "forgery" and "entirely different" in context. But what could page 34's "tinle green light" possibly be? I'm glad I didn't spend too much time trying to guess and Googled it instead because the answer is "little green light," and the other answer is now I know Penguin has published their own edition of this book in 2023, and their version is actually a pleasure to read.Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Let me start by saying that another of George S. Schuyler's novels, Black No More, is fantastic: funny, surprising, with its satire right on point. I highly recommend it. Black Empire may have been all of those things in the time it was written -- and it still has its moments. Much of the satire, though feels dated; a historical introduction or contextual notes would have done much to enhance the reader's experience. As a period piece, it's interesting. As reading for pleasure, though, this was a bust for me. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. George Schuyler's Black Empire is a satire disguised as pulp-fiction. Like a lot of pulp-fiction, it flows well and is easy to read, but is also predictable at times. Because of its political nature, the book is part George Orwell, but because of its cliff-hangers and one-sided characters, it's also part Jack London. The book is about a charismatic American doctor who is trying to establish an independent nation for Black Americans in Africa. As such, it takes aim at Black-initiated "back to Africa" philosophers, such as Marcus Garvey's. There is plenty of intrigue, conspiracy, and whiplashing narrative turns. The satire does not work for me, though. While there may have been a few thinkers who were as radical as Schuyler's doctor, only Garvey had enough clout to move on his beliefs, and his simple motive was to give Blacks in the Americas more economic independence. Schuyler's political philosophies are hard to nail down. Through the course of the 20th century, he went from disillusioned socialist to vocal atheist to Goldwater Republican to someone who had no opinion about South Africa's Apartheid. I certainly don't think Schuyler's works should be ignored, but I wonder how much of the energy he is given today is because modern conservatives seem to think of him as an intellectual giant and how much is because of his actual writing and thinking. Nevertheless, it's important to keep writers like Schuyler in print. I applaud Mint Editions for brining high quality printing and publishing standards to the public domain market. The cover, paper, and cut of their books are all wonderful. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No More, about a Black scientist who masterminds a worldwide conspiracy to take back the African continent from imperial powers A Penguin Classic "An amazing serial story of Black genius against the world" is how Black Empire was promoted upon its original publication as a serial in The Pittsburgh Courier from 1936 to 1938. It tells the electrifying tale of Dr. Henry Belsidus, a Black scientific genius desperate to free his people from the crushing tyranny of racism. To do so, he concocts a plot to enlist a crew of Black intellectuals to help him take over the world, cultivating a global network to reclaim Africa from imperial powers and punish Europe and America for white supremacy and their crimes against the planet's Black population. At once a daring, high-stakes science fiction adventure and a strikingly innovative Afrofuturist classic, this controversial and fearlessly political work lays bare the ethical quandaries of exactly how far one should go in the name of justice. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book is entertaining, the pace is quick, but the satire has faded a little. It’s worth reading, particularly if there is a more recent edition available. It seems as if this Mint edition was scanned from original publications and no one proofread the output. The errors and typos in the book were distracting at best. It made for some annoying reading.
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