Autore: Garritano, Daniele
Titolo: Contro la società post-razziale. Memorie traumatiche e immaginari di emancipazione nella scrittura di Ta-Nehisi Coates
Periodico: Studi culturali
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 131 - Pagina finale: 152

This essay provides an intellectual profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates, an Afro-American writer who has emerged as a public voice supporting racial equality in the United States. The first part deals with his nonfiction production: The Beautiful Struggle (2008), the first memoir about his youth in Baltimore and his relationship with his father; Between the World and Me (2015), a wide acclaimed essay focused on anti-black racism; We Were Eight Years in Power (2017), a collection of essays about the Obama years. Through a comparison with James Baldwin and Toni Morrison’s literary heritage, the central part highlights Coates’ capacity of interpreting complex and challenging issues around race and racism through the lens of personal experience and historical analysis. The final part deals with Coates’ novel, The Water Dancer (2019), a first-person retrospective historical fiction about slavery, set in Virginia in the mid-19th century. Using the conceptual framework of emancipatory social sciences, this critical reading recognizes the importance of subjectivation processes oriented towards a chance of liberation in the inextricable connection of past and future, power and rebellion, trauma and individual/collective memories, freedom and love.




SICI: 1824-369X(2025)2<131:CLSPMT>2.0.ZU;2-4
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