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Lädt ... Lovecraft Country (2022. Auflage)von Matt Ruff, David Palumbo (Illustrator)
Werk-InformationenLovecraft Country von Matt Ruff
  
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“Lovecraft Country” centers on two African-American families navigating the Jim Crow ’50s. These pages are rife with unwelcoming diner workers, violent lawmen, unwarranted and belittling verbal and physical attacks that are both omnipresent and unrelenting.... At every turn, Ruff has great fun pitting mid-20th-century horror and sci-fi clichés against the banal and ever-present bigotry of the era. And at every turn, it is the bigotry that hums with the greater evil. Lovecraft’s works of horror and science fiction in the early decades of the 20th century have had an outsized influence on popular culture.... Less highly regarded are Lovecraft’s ideas regarding race; a vehement believer in the superiority of white individuals over others, many of his stories were rooted in a fear of immigrants, miscegenation, and mixed ancestry....The superficialities are there — strange cults, rituals in the night, monsters with more body parts than strictly necessary — but none of the psychic horror of Lovecraft is found in Ruff’s work, none of the existential dread. The threats are real and obvious: a white man, often with a gun. ...the most terrifying moments in the story don’t come courtesy of the monsters. It turns out that even many-tentacled void hounds are nowhere near as scary as white people in Jim Crow America. Matt Ruff is to be commended for combining two genres that I couldn’t have considered further apart before now, and doing justice to both. You’ll come for the sci-fi, and stay for the history lesson. This timely rumination on racism in America refracts an African-American family’s brush with supernatural horrors through the prism of life in the Jim Crow years of the mid-20th century....Ruff (The Mirage) has an impressive grasp of classic horror themes, but the most unsettling aspects of his novel are the everyday experiences of bigotry that intensify the Turners’ encounters with the supernatural. Some very nice, very smart African-Americans are plunged into netherworlds of malevolent sorcery in the waning days of Jim Crow—as if Jim Crow alone wasn’t enough of a curse to begin with....If nothing else, you have to giggle over how this novel’s namesake, who held vicious white supremacist opinions, must be doing triple axels in his grave at the way his imagination has been so impudently shaken and stirred. Gehört zur ReiheBearbeitet/umgesetzt inWurde inspiriert vonInspiriertAuszeichnungenBemerkenswerte Listen
Chicago, 1954: Der 22-jährige schwarze Atticus begibt sich mit seinem Onkel George und seiner Jugendfreundin Letitia auf die Suche nach seinem Vater, der seltsamerweise nach Lovecraft Country in Neuengland gereist ist - dorthin, wo die strengsten Rassegesetze gelten. Da ist auch der von George herausgegebene "Safe Negro Travel Guide" keine grosse Hilfe. Nach "Mirage" , einem Thriller, der die westliche Sicht auf die Lage im Nahen Osten auf fantasievolle Weise auf den Kopf stellte, konstruiert der US-amerikanische Kultautor wieder eine leicht veränderte und etwas überdrehte Szenerie in seiner Heimat. Ruff verbindet Elemente der Fantastik eines H.P. Lovecraft mit gesellschafts- und kulturpolitischen Aspekten. Seine Protagonisten sind in Sachen amerikanischer Science-fiction- und Gruselliteratur Experten und Fans zugleich und müssen auf ihrer Odyssee durch die rassistischen USA den blanken Horror durchleben. Hochkultur trifft auf Trash und endlich gibt es wieder einen Roman von Ruff, der wie sein Debüt "Fool on the hill" ein (überwiegend männliches Publikum) rundum begeistern kann Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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