Part political thriller, part historical novel from the future and part work of visionary Afrofuturism, High Jack de Conquerorexplores questions that confront us as perennially contemporary people in a globalized and digitized world.
Whit Frazier is an American writer and Black Studies scholar. His novels include "Harlem Mosaics" (a novel about Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes), "Robert Johnson's Freewheeling Jazz Funeral" (an antinovel about how myths create us while we create them) and "High Jack de Conqueror," a historical novel from the future. He has also published articles in Callaloo, The Black Scholar, and Black Perspectives, among other publications.