Out of Darkness, Shining Light

First edition (UK)

Out of Darkness, Shining Light is a 2019 historical novel by Zimbabwean writer and lawyer Petina Gappah.[1][2][3] Her fourth novel, it was published by Faber & Faber in the UK and by Scribners in the US. The novel was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2020 in the category of Outstanding Literary Work[4][5] and won the 2020 National Arts Merit Awards for Outstanding Fiction Book.[6][7]

Colin Grant in The Times Literary Supplement called the book a "powerful and poignant lament to those rendered invisible in the past".[8] Reviewing it for World Literature Today, Sean Guynes concluded: "We need novels like Gappah's Out of Darkness, Shining Light, for they remember the stories that have been papered over by history—by whiteness and empire. As Gappah notes in her acknowledgments, these stories may not be real, but we also know that the histories we read are not totally real either, and stories like Halima's and Jacob's, told through Gappah's expert characterization, are not not-real. They are the possibilities always at the edges of the master narratives we learn; they need only to be brought out of the darkness."[9]

References

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  1. ^ Collins, Sara (February 28, 2020). "Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah review – a journey across colonial Africa". The Guardian.
  2. ^ Phillips, Caryl (September 17, 2019). "Dr. Livingstone, We Presume?". The New York Times.
  3. ^ McAloon, Jonathan (March 5, 2020). "Book Review: Out of Darkness, Shining Light — Playing subtle games with history". Irish Times.
  4. ^ Obi-Young, Otosirieze (January 10, 2020). "Margaret Busby's New Daughters of Africa Anthology, Petina Gappah, Lupita Nyong'o's Sulwe Nominated for 51st NAACP Image Awards". Brittle Paper.
  5. ^ Variety Staff (February 22, 2020). "NAACP Winners 2020: The Complete List". Variety.
  6. ^ "NAMA-National Arts Merit Awards – National Arts Council of Zimbabwe".
  7. ^ Ndoro, Tim. E. (March 1, 2020). "Here Is The Full List Of The 2020 NAMA Award Winners". iHarare.
  8. ^ Grant, Colin (19 June 2020). "New sources of the Nile". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  9. ^ Guynes, Sean (Winter 2020). "Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah". World Literature Today. Retrieved 28 March 2024.


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