The Resource Black Deutschland, Darryl Pinckney
Black Deutschland, Darryl Pinckney
Resource Information
The item Black Deutschland, Darryl Pinckney represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Black Deutschland, Darryl Pinckney represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- "Jed--young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago--flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America. But history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance. Whether it's the judgment of the cousin he grew up with and her husband's bourgeois German family, the lure of white wine in a down-and-out bar, a gang of racists looking for a brawl, or the ravaged visage of Rock Hudson flashing behind the face of every white boy he desperately longs for, the past never stays past even in faraway Berlin. In the age of Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, he clambers toward some semblance of adulthood amid the outcasts and expats, intellectuals and artists, queers and misfits. And, on occasion, the city keeps its Isherwood promises and the boy he kisses, incredibly, kisses him back.An intoxicating, provocative novel of appetite, identity, and self-construction, Darryl Pinckney's Black Deutschland tells the story of an outsider, trapped between a painful past and a tenebrous future, in Europe's brightest and darkest city"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374113810
- Label
- Black Deutschland
- Title
- Black Deutschland
- Statement of responsibility
- Darryl Pinckney
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Jed--young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago--flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America. But history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance. Whether it's the judgment of the cousin he grew up with and her husband's bourgeois German family, the lure of white wine in a down-and-out bar, a gang of racists looking for a brawl, or the ravaged visage of Rock Hudson flashing behind the face of every white boy he desperately longs for, the past never stays past even in faraway Berlin. In the age of Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, he clambers toward some semblance of adulthood amid the outcasts and expats, intellectuals and artists, queers and misfits. And, on occasion, the city keeps its Isherwood promises and the boy he kisses, incredibly, kisses him back.An intoxicating, provocative novel of appetite, identity, and self-construction, Darryl Pinckney's Black Deutschland tells the story of an outsider, trapped between a painful past and a tenebrous future, in Europe's brightest and darkest city"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pinckney, Darryl
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3566.I516
- LC item number
- B58 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- FICTION / LGBT / Gay
- African Americans
- Gay men
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / African American / General
- Label
- Black Deutschland, Darryl Pinckney
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 908176193
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374113810
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015032651
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Label
- Black Deutschland, Darryl Pinckney
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 908176193
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374113810
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015032651
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
Library Locations
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