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The color line
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The color line
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Physical Description:
521 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published in Italian as La linea del colore in 2020 by Bompiani, Milan.
Summary:
"Inspired by true events, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Chippewa woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence. Now, in 1887, living in Rome as one of the city's most established painters, she is ready to tell her fiancé about her difficult life, which began in a poor family forty years earlier. In 2019, an Italian art curator of Somali origin is desperately trying to bring to Europe her younger cousin, who is only sixteen and has already tried to reach Italy on a long, treacherous journey. While organizing an art exhibition that will combine the paintings of Lafanu Brown with the artworks of young migrants, the curator becomes more and more obsessed with the life and secrets of the nineteenth-century painter. Weaving together these two vibrant voices, Igiaba Scego has crafted a powerful exploration of what it means to be "other," to be a woman, and particularly a Black woman, in a foreign country, yesterday and today"--
Publication Info:
New York : Other Press, [2022]

©2020
Uniform Title:
Linea del colore. English
Subject:
African American women artists -- Fiction.
Art museum curators -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Italy -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Somalis -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Racism against Black people -- Italy -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Italy -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Afro-American women artists
Women artists, African American
Art curators
Curators, Art museum
Black women
Women, Negro
African Americans -- United States
Afro-Americans
Black Americans
Colored people (United States)
Negroes
Somal
Somali
Somalians
Somals
Anti-Black racism
Antiblack racism
Racism against Blacks
Emigrants
Foreign-born population
Foreign population
Foreigners
Migrants
Bi-racial people
Biracial people
Interracial people
Mixed race people
Mixed-racial people
Mulattoes
Multiracial people
Peoples of mixed descent
SAILS ISBN:
9781635420869