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Ring Shout
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Overview
Published in 2020 by P. Djéli Clark, Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times, is a speculative novella (short novel) set in a world in which members of the Ku Klux Klan are literal monsters. Clark is an academic historian whose work is primarily set in alternate universes. Ring Shout won the prestigious Nebula, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards. Skydance Television is currently developing the novella as a TV show.
This guide refers to the Tor Books Kindle edition.
Content Warning: The source text and this guide discuss anti-Black racism and violence, enslavement, and hate crimes such as lynching.
Plot Summary
The action unfolds in an alternate universe in which Walter J. Simmons uses Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film that includes dangerous racism and glorification of the first iteration of the Ku Klux Klan, to recruit many members to a new, magical Klan. Set in 1922, the novella opens in Macon, Georgia, with Maryse Boudreaux, Sadie Watkins, and Cordelia “Chef” Lawrence trapping Ku Kluxes. Maryse kills one of the Ku Kluxes with a magical, singing sword that appears when she is in danger or angry.
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