Advanced Search Request a Book

ORDERS

Readings Orders 0

DEMANDS

Readings Demands 0

Negrophobia:an Urban Parable
[Paperback - 2019]
darius james
On Demand
Availability in 4-6 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: $14.95
Our Price: Rs.3545 Rs.3013
Standard Discount: 15%
You Save: Rs.532
Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Humorous Fiction
Additional Category: Ethnic Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9781681373294 | Pages: 208
Shipping Weight: .227 | Dimensions: 5.11 x .62 x 7.99 inches

Description

A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author.

Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets, Muslims beat conga drums, Negroes have numbers for names, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all, after going on a weird trip for the ages, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed.

About the Author

Darius James (b. 1954) is a writer and spoken-word performance artist. He is also the author of That’s Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss ’Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury); Voodoo Stew; and Froggie Chocolate’s Christmas Eve. His writing has appeared in multiple publications, including The Village Voice, Vibe, and Spin, and he is the co-writer and narrator of the 2012 film The United States of Hoodoo. He lives in Connecticut.


Amy Abugo Ongiri is an associate professor and the Jill Beck Director of Film Studies at Lawrence University. She is the author of Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic and her writing has appeared in The Journal of African American History, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Postmodern Culture, and other publications.

Bestsellers in Fiction

View All
Before The Coffee Gets Cold: Before The Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)
[Paperback - 2019]
toshikazu kawaguchi
In Stock
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2295 Rs.2065
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.230
A Little Life: Tiktok Made Me Buy It!
[Paperback - 2016]
hanya yanagihara
In Stock
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2395 Rs.2155
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.240
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo: Tiktok Made Me Buy It!
[Paperback - 2021]
taylor jenkins reid
In Stock
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: Rs.2395 Rs.2155
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.240
The Secret History: Tiktok Made Me Buy It!
[Paperback - 1993]
donna tartt
In Stock
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.2195 Rs.1975
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.220
Book Lovers: Tiktok Made Me Buy It!
[Paperback - 2022]
emily henry
In Stock
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: Rs.2195 Rs.1975
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.220
The Atlas Six: The Atlas Six Series (Book 1) Tiktok Made Me Buy It!
[Paperback - 2022]
olivie blake
In Stock
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.2395 Rs.2155
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.240
Twisted Games: Twisted Love (Book 2) (Tiktok Made Me Buy It!)
[Paperback - 2022]
ana huang
In Stock
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.2295 Rs.2065
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.230
It Ends With Us: It Ends With Us (Book 1) (Tiktok Made Me Buy It!)
[Paperback - 2016]
colleen hoover
In Stock
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.2595 Rs.2335
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.260
Twisted Love: Twisted Love (Book 1) (Tiktok Made Me Buy It!)
[Paperback - 2022]
ana huang
In Stock
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.2195 Rs.1975
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.220
King Of Wrath: Kings Of Sin (Book 1)
[Paperback - 2022]
ana huang
In Stock
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.2245 Rs.2020
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.225
Final Offer: Dreamland Billionaires (Book 3) (Tiktok Made Me Buy It!)
[Paperback - 2023]
lauren asher
In Stock
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: Rs.2395 Rs.2155
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.240
Icebreaker: The Maple Hills Series (Book 1) (Tiktok Made Me Buy It!)
[Paperback - 2023]
hannah grace
In Stock
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: Rs.2395 Rs.2155
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.240