In this debut collection of personal essays, Eugen Bacon offers critical perspectives on blackness, Afrofuturism, colonialism, historicity, and (mis)recognition as she explores the untapped possibilities of speculative fiction. Using a variety of analytic, narrative, and anecdotal techniques, Bacon shares her experiences as an African Australian woman, mother, and writer who occupies a liminal space that is "betwixt" worlds and genres. She also considers work by "other" writers-ranging from Roland Barthes and Jorge Luis Borges to Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Sheree Renée Thomas-in an effort to chart a path towards greater social and cultural truth. Literary, adventurous, and insightful, An Earnest Blackness excavates the world(s) that not only construct contemporary authorship but the fluid nature of identity itself.
- | Author: Eugen Matoyo Bacon
- | Publisher: Anti-Oedipus Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 124 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0999153587
- | ISBN-13: 9780999153581
- Author:
- Eugen Matoyo Bacon
- Publisher:
- Anti-Oedipus Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 15, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 124 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0999153587
- ISBN-13:
- 9780999153581