# Dis//integration

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- Authors: [William Melvin Kelley](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-melvin-kelley)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-10-24

## Description

Dis//Integration, a previously unpublished work by William Melvin Kelley, author of A Different Drummer, is a notable and welcome addition to African American literature. The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up DIS//INTEGRATION follow the life journeys of Charles " Chig" Dunford from his Nanny Eva sermonizing from her front porch, when he is only seventeen, to his peripatetic studies in Reupeo (an anagram of Europe) as a college student, to his unsettled bachelorhood as an English professor at a small Vermont college, where he continues to struggle to finish his life-long study of the Reupeonese author Dupukshamin and find true love. Along the way, as Chig's sentimental education unfolds, we meet an array of memorable characters: John Hoenir, the Hemingway-esque expatriate novelist who takes Chig under his wing; Wendy Whitman, an actress passing for white, who breaks Chig's heart; Merry, his troubled teen-age niece who Chig, in middle-age, agrees to look after; Raymond Winograd, the villainous department chair; Renka Bravo, the alluring dancer who might just make Chig an honest man; and one hundred Africans mysteriously chained together in the lower decks of Chig's homeward-bound transatlantic liner. DIS//INTEGRATION is an odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life.

## Editions

### Dis//integration

- Publisher: riverrun
- ISBN: 978-15-2943-897-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2024-10-24
- Language: en_GB

### Dis//integration

- Publisher: riverrun
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2943-898-7
- Published: 2024-10-24
- Language: en_GB

### Dis//Integration

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-9346-993-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2024-10-22
- Language: en_US