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Out of the Sun

On Race and Storytelling

An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade.What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through the lens of visual art, literature, film, and the author’s lived experience, Out of the Sun examines Black histories in art, offering new perspectives to challenge us.

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Esi Edugyan

A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Victoria, Esi Edugyan was raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Washington Black, which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Man Booker Award and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Half-Blood Blues, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize; and The Second Life of Samuel Tyne. She is also the author of Dreaming of Elsewhere, which is part of the Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. She has held fellowships in the U.S., Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain, and Belgium. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Chapter Contributors Pages Year Price
In this introduction, Edugyan uses Sun Tzu’s metaphor of light and shadow to frame who is visible and who is hidden in written histories.
2 $0.20
In this chapter, Edugyan traces how European portraiture from the eighteenth century onward has framed, flattened, and contested Black identity across centuries.
20 $2.00
In this chapter, Edugyan explores how Canadian ghost stories preserve or erase collective memory, particularly the absence of Black lives from the national narrative.
19 $1.90
In this chapter, Edugyan explores Black peoples claims on technological progress, the future, and Afrofuturism.
21 $2.10
In this chapter, Edugyan examines how storytelling has shaped perceptions of Blackness across Asia.
22 $2.20
This "chapter" is a bibliography and photo credit list.
15 $1.50