{"product_id":"out-there-hardcover","title":"Out There - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a lot to tell us about the history of a people who are always \"outsiders.\" Born in Jamaica in 1883, J. A. Rogers was an early member of the Harlem Renaissance -- a newspaper columnist, historian of Negro achievement, polemicist against white supremacy, and amateur sociologist of interracial sex as evidenced in his massive three-volume work Sex and Race. Vincent O. Carter, who came of age in 1920's Kansas City, wrote\u003ci\u003e The Bern Book\u003c\/i\u003e, an exploration of being black in a Swiss rather than an American setting. Caryl Phillips, a son of the generation of black Caribbeans who returned to Great Britain after the Second World War, has explored the psychology of migration in fiction and nonfiction that include The Final Passage, Higher Ground, and The Nature of Blood. Pinckney's essays on these writers, drawn from his Alain Locke Lectures at Harvard University, give us a rich understanding of what it has meant to be \"children of the diaspora\" over the past century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction and author of the novel \u003ci\u003eHigh Cotton\u003ci\u003e and of the texts for Robert Wilson's productions of \u003ci\u003eThe Forest, Orlando\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTime Rocker\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and many other periodicals. He lives in Oxford, England.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.72 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45388974882918,"sku":"9780465057603","price":39.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/V3dNUlVoOVYzRHpScDdUaWo2aW1vdz09.webp?v=1775052567","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/out-there-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}