We follow our narrator Emmanuel as he navigates life in this very familiar world of heightened racial tensions. You are thrown into the first story in the collection, “The Finkelstein 5” which focuses on the aftermath of an incident in which five black children are decapitated by a white man with a chainsaw. From race issues in America to capitalism, this debut collection of short stories packs a punch. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black does not ease its reader in. The module is the first English academic study in the world dedicated to a major literally prize and includes access for the students to authors and members of the publishing industry who run tutorials on subjects ranging from book marketing and publicity, to book prize logistics and sales in publishing to help students to explore how literary prizes help to produce, promote and celebrate contemporary writing. Next up is Danni Scott’s review of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). In the run up to the announcement of the winner of this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize, Wales Arts Review will be publishing reviews of the six shortlisted titles, written by the students of the IDTPrize module at Swansea University.
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