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Counternarratives

by John Keene
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Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are "suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting" (Publishers Weekly)

Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. "An Outtake" chronicles an escaped slave's take on liberty and the American Revolution; "The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows" presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; "The Aeronauts" soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; "Rivers" portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in "Acrobatique," the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
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Publisher: New Directions

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  • Release date: May 17, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9780811224352
  • File size: 2706 KB
  • Release date: May 17, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9780811224352
  • File size: 2692 KB
  • Release date: May 17, 2016
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Fiction African American Fiction Literature Short Stories

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English

Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are "suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting" (Publishers Weekly)

Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. "An Outtake" chronicles an escaped slave's take on liberty and the American Revolution; "The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows" presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; "The Aeronauts" soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; "Rivers" portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in "Acrobatique," the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
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Fiction African American Fiction Literature Short Stories