Eulogy for Nigger and Other Essays

Sinopse

A Eulogy for Nigger is a bold and original piece of rhetoric. In 2007, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a solemn funeral for the N-word. David Bradley responds to the burial with an impassioned defence of Nigger as a word, as a history and as a concept. This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize. From the coolly analytical to the impassioned winning entry 'A Eulogy for Nigger', these essays showcase the dazzling literary range of the form. These are writers who, in the words of <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL719613A" target="_blank">Adam Mars-Jones</a>, Judge and Chair, ‘understand that it is not just what we see, but how we see it’.