The Dark Delight of Being Strange

Auteur
James B. Haile, III is an Afrosurrealist and Afrofuturist writer who is an associate professor of philosophy with a joint appointment in English at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present (2020).

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An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life.

Résumé
An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life.

Contenu
Acknowledgments
Preface: P.S.A.
Part I: Of the Door of No Return to the Stars

1. Henry Box Brown: An Ode to the Enigma of Black Freedom
2. At Rest: Journey to the Center of the Earth
3. Dumas: This Land of Mine
   Part II: On the Transformation of the Spirit
4. Theft
5. Tathgata
6. Appetite/Fever/Consumption
   Epilogue: NeroToward a More Perfect Union
   Notes
   Index