这条信息（塔那西斯·科茨） The Message

基本信息

出版社：One World (2024年 10月 1日)

语言：英语

精装：256页

ISBN-10：0593230388

ISBN-13：978-0593230381

商品重量：1.05 Kilograms

尺寸：12.7 x 1.59 x 19.05 cm

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书籍简介

《纽约时报》畅销书《我与世界之间》的作者前往三个引起强烈反响的冲突地点，探索我们讲述的故事（以及我们不讲述的故事）如何塑造我们的现实。

塔纳西斯·科茨最初打算写一本关于写作的书，继承奥威尔经典著作《政治与英语》的传统，但他发现自己正在努力解决更深层次的问题，即我们的故事（我们的报道、富有想象力的叙述和神话）如何揭露和扭曲我们的现实。

在这本书的三篇相互交织的文章中的一篇中，科茨初次去非洲，发现自己同时身处两个地方：塞内加尔的现代化城市达喀尔，以及他心中的神话王国。然后，他带着读者来到南卡罗来纳州的哥伦比亚，报道自己书籍被禁的情况，同时也探讨了美国对历史的反思以及根深蒂固的美国神话在这座城市中如此明显——这座城市是南部邦联的首都，种族隔离主义者的雕像耸立在公共广场上。结尾，在本书较长的部分，科茨前往巴勒斯坦，在那里他清楚地看到了我们是多么容易被民族主义叙事误导，以及我们讲述的故事与现实生活之间的冲突所带来的悲剧。

这部作品写于美国和全球生活的一个戏剧性时刻，由美国重要的作家之一创作，讲述了我们迫切需要摆脱塑造我们世界和我们自己灵魂的破坏性神话，拥抱即使是最艰难的真理的解放力量。

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the English Language,”but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities.

In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation’s recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book’s longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. 

Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

作者简介

塔-纳西斯·科茨是《美丽的斗争》、《我们曾掌权八年》、《水舞者》和《我与世界之间》的作者，后者于 2015 年获得美国国家图书奖。他曾获得美国国家杂志奖和麦克阿瑟奖。他目前是霍华德大学英语系斯特林·布朗特聘教授。

Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.