November 2025 - Creative

‎ “The Gnarled Fingers of Fate”: Curse Temporalities and the Question of Agency

In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois commissioned the artist Meta Fuller to produce a sculpture in celebration of the 50th anniversary […]

Homegoing is not primarily invested in aptly conveying the horrors of chattel slavery. Instead, the novel aims to capture a

As Dalley states in his study of the postcolonial historical novel, “just as contests over the meaning of history forced

Two-thirds into Gyasi’s debut novel, a middle-aged history teacher named Yaw finds himself questioned by a class of schoolboys. The

‎‎Listing Yaa Gyasi, Yvonne Owuor, Colson Whitehead, Chimamanda Adichie, and Peter Kimani as examples, historian Dan Magaziner notes in an

“History clings to our skin. Somehow we must remember that we remember differently.”‎‎Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi‎‎”One must return to the site.

Americanah is a diasporic novel that explicitly negotiates different Black epistemologies. While acceding to the constitutive force of an afterlife

“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with Africa‎‎Adichie herself has called Americanah an “unapologetic” love story, and it is

‎ ‎As Adichie remarked in an interview about the novel: “I am more or less expected, or maybe permitted, to

‎Americanah is part of a discourse that diversifies notions of Blackness in the diaspora. This is what Goyal asserts when