Hello bookworms!
We have decided on our first book for the DRUUMM NonFiction Book Club Group--for DRUUMM members only!
That book is The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad. The book seeks to redefine the impoverished post-colonial societies of the “Third World” as both a utopian concept and a global movement.
We will not be reading the entire book in one month, as to be kind to new readers and to piecemeal intellectual discourse. The book is broken up into three parts, each between 100 and 150 pages. This month book club members will read Part I: Quest. This first part would be up to page 115 for those with a physical copy.
Book Description:
“Spanning every continent of the global South, Vijay Prashad's fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of postcolonial nations after World War II to the downfall and corruption of nationalist regimes. A breakthrough book of cutting-edge scholarship, it includes vivid portraits of Third World giants like India's Nehru, Egypt's Nasser, and Indonesia's Sukarno―as well as scores of extraordinary but now-forgotten intellectuals, artists, and freedom fighters. The Darker Nations restores to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World, whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced a much impoverished international political arena.”
We hope you can join us for what will be a paradigm shifting and transformative read!
See you on the page,
DRUUMM Book Club
