The Flagellants

Feminist and civil rights activist Charlene Hatcher Polite interrogates the violent conflicts at the intersection of race...
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Author: Carlene Hatcher Polite
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Language: English
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The Flagellants by Polite, Carlene Hatcher

The Flagellants

Dhs. 79.91

The Flagellants

Dhs. 79.91
Author: Carlene Hatcher Polite
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Feminist and civil rights activist Charlene Hatcher Polite interrogates the violent conflicts at the intersection of race and gender in her first novel, The Flagellants.

Ideal and Jimson are a young black couple living in New York City, whose escalating verbal and physical clashes reflect the casual brutality inflicted on African Americans. Dismissed by some for its experimental, nonlinear style and dense dialect, The Flagellants was praised by others for its powerful voice of rage against an oppressive society. As The New York Times Book Review noted upon its publication, the book was among the first fictional works by a black woman to focus directly on the theme of the sometimes bitter antagonism between black men and women, a theme later taken up by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.

Originally published in France to critical acclaim and only later in the U.S., The Flagellants is at once a scathing critique of black masculinity and femininity, race relations in the 1960s, and invented dichotomies across the human experience.



Author: Carlene Hatcher Polite
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 12/19/1967
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.05w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780374526566

About the Author
Carlene Hatcher Polite (1932-2009) worked as a professional dancer in Detroit and New York City and for several civil rights organizations before turning to writing. In 1964 she moved to Paris where she wrote two novels, The Flagellants and Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play. She later taught creative writing at the University of Buffalo until her retirement in 2000.


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