Research Catalog

Title

Black Jesus and other superheroes : stories / Venita Blackburn.

Author

Blackburn, Venita

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

ix, 155 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesirable superhuman abilities are nonetheless resilient in subtle and startling ways. Venita Blackburn's characters hurl themselves toward the inevitable fates they might rather wish away. Their stories play with magic without the sparkle, glaring at the internal machinations of the human spirit. Fragile symbols for things such as race, sexuality, and love are lifted, decorated, and exposed to scrutiny and awe like so many ruins of our imagination. Through it all Blackburn's characters stumblealong currents of language both thoughtful and hilarious."--

Series Statement

Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction

Uniform Title

• Prairie schooner book prize in fiction.
• Short stories. Selections

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subjects

• Short stories, American
• FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Black Jesus -- Brim -- A Savior, Belief, Tupac, and Balloons -- We Buy Gold -- The Hurt Will Make You Stronger -- Chew -- Take Me to the Water -- In the Middle of Everything There Are Ribbons of Light -- String Theory -- A Brief Excerpt from the History of Salt -- Ephemeros -- Dog People -- Barbers -- End of the World -- Ways to Mourn an Asshole -- Rites -- They Only Look Like They're Smiling -- The Immolator -- There Are No Ninjas in the End -- Hold 'til Warm -- Ravished -- Not Like You, Not at All -- The Annie Oakley Gun Training for Women -- Scars -- Run Away Screaming.

ISBN

• 9781496201867
• 1496201868

LCCN

^^2017005541

OCLC

983387205

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library