Eulogy for Nigger and Other Essays

About this book

A ***Eulogy for Nigger*** is a bold and original piece of rhetoric. In 2007, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a solemn funeral for the N-word. David Bradley responds to the burial with an impassioned defence of Nigger as a word, as a history and as a concept. This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize. From the coolly analytical to the impassioned winning entry ***'A Eulogy for Nigger'***, these essays showcase the dazzling literary range of the form. These are writers who, in the words of Adam Mars-Jones , Judge and Chair, ‘understand that it is not just what we see, but how we see it’.